Over the weekend I moved this blog from being hosted on my Dreamhost account to one of my 256mb Slicehost servers.
I’ve done this mainly to stop paying for hosting twice, but also because if I’m going to be talking about performance I can’t possibly have a slow blog and my options were limited with the [...]
Tag Archives: slicehost
Wordpress with Nginx on Slicehost
Apache, It Works!
I was looking through the slicehost article section the other night and bumped into an awesome article on initial configuration steps for ubuntu. If you don’t know what your doing, you should go take a look at that.
So, anyway. I’ve got a server up and going doing absolutely nothing, and I’m assuming you do too [...]
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Getting the basics done
So I’ve setup my SliceHost account and have created a server (the 256mb of ram one for $20 a month). First off though I needed to the usual house keeping when setting up a new server.
The Centos image at slicehost is bare basic and only comes with openssh, where as the Ubuntu image has a [...]
The Plan.
As I eluded to yesterday I’m going down the Ubuntu track and doing this on SliceHost.
Ubuntu, because basically the wealth of resources available online for this distribution is massive compared to the likes of CentOS/RedHat. Well, the places where I look anyways. I use SliceHost for hosting Ponoko and couldn’t praise them more. For US$20 [...]
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