Hosting

Well, after many years of posting my nonsense on the internets, I have finally made the transition from shared hosting to a VPS. This last week, I migrated this site over to a Linode VPS, and I must say that the whole experience has been pretty painless.

My web host has just introduced a new Q&A site based on the Stack Exchange model. Looks like a slick way to get help that’s a major improvement over the old forums.

My good friend Dan Patterson of Creepy Sleepy just recently had a rather nasty wake-up call with regards to his current hosting provider, Bluehost. Due to a security flaw on their servers, malicious files were injected into several of the websites he was hosting there, but despite the fact that it was failure to maintain security on their servers (as opposed to his account being hacked due to weak passwords or similar), they suspended his account.