After a while of beeing without hosting (I tried a few) I decided to get a a cheap VPS (Virtual Private Server) and register a domain.
I must say it has been a very pleasant experience, I’ve root access and can install anything in there, even Mono! Of course I’ll give it a try but I do not expect it to be usable since the server only has 96MB of RAM, but I’ll upgrade to more after I see the network/bandwidth perfomance of the server.
When I read about the 96 of RAM I was a litle septic… (I bet you’re too) but after testing and a few tunning I realized that my Fedora Core 4 (I had all FC’s, Ubuntu, Suse <= 9.2, Gentoo and CentOS to pick from) was able to boot with only 30MB of used memory, 40-50 after mysql, apache and wordpress running. Pretty impresive, to me at least. I’m now finnishing the subversion setup that will tell me if I really need an upgrade or not. Anyway I’m now figuring out a lot of uses for my VPS… amazing!
