A few weeks ago I moved spendy.org and the other domains I host over to a Linode virtual dedicated server. Linode uses user-mode Linux so I am free to run my choice of distribution with guaranteed bandwidth, CPU, and memory. Since I can’t really justify the expense of collocating a server for the few odds and ends I have on the Internet, a VDS is the next best thing. The initial account setup was painless and $20/month is a bargain compared to most shared hosting accounts.

Storage space is at a premium; however, I find most of my stuff fits nicely in 4GB. A bit of reverse proxy magic with Apache allows me to serve up my photos from my home server. This provides a more elegant solution to Verizon’s lame port 80 blocking on their FiOS network.

So far I’m a very happy customer