the Spacewaster

I’ve just moved my Habari powered blog away from NearlyFreeSpeech.net to SliceHost, if everything works as planned you shouldn’t have noticed anything at all.

The reasons for my move

• One login to rule them all, NFS lets you host as many domains as you want - but you get a separate user for each and every one of them
• Be my own dictator, SH is a VPS host - ie. they let you build your own server from scratch. Demands more of you, but gives unlimited (depending on resource usage that is) freedom in return.
• Reverse Squid proxy, Squid is a cache demon to lower the load of the servers and to serve pages faster. But with rapid updates/editing it didn’t server the latest revision of the page.

Why I didn’t move

• NFS is as cheap as it gets, you literary pay pocket lint to host with them - pay for what you use.
• World class support and responsiveness - if you want some obscure Perl module installed, all you have to ask and you’ll receive (unless it breaks the system).