Well, it’s that time of year again.

I had a choice to make — continue hosting this site with GoDaddy for another year and live with the ridiculous restrictions on the shared hosting there.

OR

Move the site over to a VPS running on Slicehost’s cloud.

Sure, the VPS is more expensive, but I get a whole lot of win for a little extra money.

• Root access, and thus complete control of the server environment
• Automagic backups
• Wildcard DNS
• Unblocked SMTP port for mail
• A testbed for new tech, like Ruby, Python, etc.
• Multiple virtual hosts within Apache
• The ability to run the Varnish HTTP accelerator (better performance!)
• The fun and education of taking care of my own server

It’s just a no-brainer.  Anyhow, I’ve got everything moved over, so if you find any bugs on the site, please don’t hesitate to let me know.

Thanks!