It's been a while since my Dell home server has ended his life. So, I moved my iBualoy site to stay together on the same server with Meedee. Lately I made my decision to continue on iBualoy as my tech blog for web development and try my best to write in English. My personal blog will remain on www.sexdrum.net more for personal, family, and musical stuffs written in Thai.
Since Meedee Server is located in Thailand, and it's content is Thai localized. But I would prefer to push myself to write the technical stuffs in English (with my broken English... lol), and it would be nice if it hosted in USA. Fortunately, in the mean time, my company Figabyte is expanding the server capacity. Thanks to my friend Vairoj, who recommend me Dreamhost, and I decided to go for Dreamhost VPS.
DreamHost VPS
I always interested in Virtualization technology and prefer to operate VPS server for my production, it spoiled me to get used to Root Access via SSH on my server. Recently DreamHost is one of the most attractive VPS package available out there. The price is affordable, considerably quite lower price than others in the same range. Amazon EC2 is Cloud Computing, but far more expensive than simple VPS. The other VPS candidates are Network Solutions, VPS.NET, for Thai VPS are Host Pacific, Siam Inter Host, Porar.
Figabyte migrate to USA
Actually the reason I use DreamHost is for my company Figabyte. We are more concentrate on Facebook Application, and I assume that if our hosting is in USA, it will communicate better with Facebook Server. I'm not sure yet is my assumtion is correct or not. We will see soon... lol
More attractive price
The most expensive things in VPS and Cloud is RAM!!! There are many hosting company in Thailand provide VPS Hosting, but they are more expensive than USA Hosting companies, less choice of Operating System, less hardware resources offer. In general, Cloud is a nice idea but not for small operation like this. It damn expensive to run such a tiny operation. VPS is still my affordable choice by quite expensive. The good thing is DreamHost offer quite a good deal.
It's Debian
The reason that less choice of OS is matter is because... I'm noob!!! lol. Since I'm not professional in server administration, just started to learn how to operate Ubuntu few years ago (it's 5 years already... quite old now lol) mostly for Webserver operation. My concentration is not server administration, but Web development. So, I can operate only Ubuntu or Debian-based Linux... (which as far as I know now is only ubuntu and debian). So DreamHost provide Debian 5.0 Lenny.
Robust Web Panel
DreamHost provide a robust web panel to manage your web hosting and vps. It's not bad at all, but I just prefer simple webmin... lol. The good thing of DreamHost web panel is it integrated into OS quite good, the bad thing is it integrated into OS too good! Hah, It quite take sometime to learn how is it integrated and how to disable or avoid it correctly. But finally I can manage my VPS via simple webmin, SSH, SFTP, MySQL Workbanch happily
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