May 29th, 2008 | Silkjaer
Final step away from (mt)
Today I migrated my blog to a new server - it has been the plan for quite a while, since I bought a new VPS from a european hosting center.
Until now, my sites have run on a Media Temple (dv) server, but one of my most visited sites is danish, wiinyt.dk, and the ping times to servers located in USA just isn't optimal. Instead I found a hosting center in Germany, yourshelter.net, and ping times are now 20-30ms instead of Media Temples 190-200ms.
So if the site loads faster for people in EU than others, this is why.
2008-05-29 18:18:38 | Mikkel Malmberg
I too have migrated from (mt) to YourShelter on the exact same reason.
Everything went well with setting up at ys? Are you running Apache? The reason I'm asking is that i found Apache killed my server by being too heavy, so now I'm using Lighttpd instead, which is nice. But I miss apache's mod_rewrite and .htacess support just a bit. And mod_rails seems nice too...
2008-05-29 18:24:51 | Silkjaer
I chose the VDS D1 package, where I think I have plenty of resources to run Apache - haven't been a problem yet at least.
I have chosen to lease a Plesk license though, makes my life much easier :) Yourshelter provided me a 100-domain license for €8/month, which is way cheaper than Parallels themselves lease it for.
I'm more than happy with the solution :)
2008-05-29 18:31:44 | Mikkel Malmberg
Alright. Not bad. I'm only doing the VPS-thing. With one third of your ram. Maybe I was just not very good at setting up apache and ought to just try it again.
I can recommend using gratisdns.dk for the dns-records. They make moving around just a bit easier. I'm also using their email service, mxhotel.dk.
2008-05-29 18:38:54 | Silkjaer
Domains are hosted at gratisdns.dk :) E-mails are hosted on yourshelter though.
2008-05-29 22:14:28 | Caius DUrling
If you go read the articles at http://articles.slicehost.com/ Mikkel, you'll find a lot of useful information on setting up VPS's. (I know its written for slicehost customers, but it applies to any server running a flavour of linux they deal with really.)
2008-06-03 20:55:15 | Robert Wetzlmayr
Out of curiosity: Besides ping times, did you experience any other quirks with your (mt) setup?
2008-06-03 21:04:41 | Silkjaer
Robert> I ran out of memory on the server, so I had to buy "extra RAM" - a quite expensive affair. But I haven't had any other issues/quirks :)
2008-06-06 19:39:58 | Ajay
I've had an account with FutureHosting for quite a while now. Good service and more cost effective than other places. Works well for me.
Have around 30GB space + Backup on an external server as well as 512MB RAM.
I prefer cPanel over Plesk. 1. it is an unlimited accounts license, and I've found it easier to use among all the control panels that I have used.
768 is a lot of ram, why did you need to upgrade?
2008-06-06 19:41:15 | Ajay
I forgot to add, I use Google Hosted Apps for my email. Gives me a great deal of space, handles my spam and takes the load of the VPS.
2008-06-10 20:22:03 | Silkjaer
Ajay> I run quite many web sites on the server, a lot of mails, and some quite heavy cron jobs. I could perhaps settle with 512MB :)
I have considered moving mails to Google, I just honestly dislike how the IMAP works with gmail labels as folders etc.