If you’ve read my blog before, you know that last December I performed the tedious task of moving my website from GoDaddy to Bluehost. Well this year, I’m doing it again.
I haven’t had any issues with Bluehost. In fact having unlimited bandwidth and space for around the same cost as my GoDaddy account and not having to wait 15+ minutes for a settings change was great. But now, I decided that I wanted to do more. I wanted to be able to have full control of a virtual machine that I could do more than just web hosting. A system where I could run test scripts, host dns, host email, and do anything else that I can think of. The best part, it is actually cheaper than than shared hosting through BlueHost.
I had tried another VPS (Virtual Private Server) host in the past, but suffered terrible lag and the worst customer support I had ever encountered. An example of that can be seen here.
I was lucky enough to find a new company out of Chicago that is serving awesome VPS’s at affordable prices. At $4.95/month I am getting 512MB of RAM, 50GB of storage, and 2TB of Dedicated Bandwidth per month. These VPSs all currently run linux, and I have Debian 6 on mine. So what is this company you ask? Binary Computer Solutions. If you are interested in getting a VPSs, help me out and order via this link. https://customer.binarycpu.com/?affid=8.
Ok, so what do you have running on your VPS so far?
- Apache2 Web Server
- BIND9 DNS Server
- Postfix Smtp
My server is acting as the nameserver for Rychannel.com and a couple other sites that I host. It was quite interesting to figure out how to set BIND’s Primary Zones. My Postfix setup acts as a forwarder to another email account not hosted on the server. My Apache2 setup is currently hosting websites for 3 different domains.
Any questions or comments? Leave them in the comment section and I will be sure to respond.
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