Sweet tip. Thanks. While we're on the subject I recommend anything in Iceland if you value privacy. I think by now most of us have heard what happened to LavaBit.
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Brad Bendily <bend...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, years ago I created a "slice" at Slicehost to run my personal website > and > have root on a box somewhere. A few years ago, Rackspace bought Slicehost > and then about > a year ago my VM was moved into the Rackspace managed site. Which has been > working fine. > In fact, my cost from slicehost to rackspace was cut in half because of > the difference in > rackspace's pricing model. So, i went from $20/month to $11 or so. > But, that slice runs an older Gentoo and i can't seem to get it to upgrade > with an emerge. > To much stuff fails, i fought it for a while but gave up. > Then I found this site: > https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing > > For the same price i'm currently paying, $10/mo. I can triple my current > specs. or for half the price, i can double my specs. So, for $10/mo. i've > created a CentOS 6.4 "droplet". 1GBmem. 1 CPU, 30GB SSD Disk with 2TB > transfer. > My current slice is 256m, 10gb, 1TB, 4xcpu. > > So far so good. There are less OS choices than rackspace, but enough > options. > If I build a new VM at rackspace, it would be $16/mo. Rackspace doesn't > have the VM choice that > I currently have. > > If you're interested, please use this code: > > https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=416e93cbbf4e > > > -- > Have Mercy & Say Yeah > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -- "The world's my oyster, a hotel room's my prison cell..."
_______________________________________________ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
