Atholl Road Labs » Virtual Hosting http://c1.athollroad.eu Just a place to experiment Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:38:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 Bluelighthost, iCloud or BBS Commerce Ltd http://c1.athollroad.eu/2012/10/31/bluelighthost-icloud-or-bbs-commerce-ltd/ http://c1.athollroad.eu/2012/10/31/bluelighthost-icloud-or-bbs-commerce-ltd/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:37:42 +0000 http://c1.athollroad.eu/?p=16 Continue reading →]]> Bluelighthost are doing a free 7 day trial (http://www.bluelighthost.com/our-services). It look great so I gave it a spin. 1/2 day later I had Ubuntu, Nginx, MySQL running a WordPress mu. Brilliant! You get a medium VM for £15 ex vat so, after checking my vm would stay alive I signed up. Next day my vm was gone :-( Apparently I didn’t choose an upgrade. They couldn’t restore it and I got passed from pillar to post (the number on the support ticket was iCloud not Bluelighthost). When I eventually got through to Bluelighthost they told me to send an email! They did answer the email quickly but by that time I had restored an image of my server to a home machine and was slightly annoyed. They refunded my money without question.

Conclusion: Probably a good service but some organisational teething problems. Always keep backups and triple check when upgrading that your vps will survive.

]]> http://c1.athollroad.eu/2012/10/31/bluelighthost-icloud-or-bbs-commerce-ltd/feed/ 0 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) http://c1.athollroad.eu/2012/10/31/amazon-elastic-compute-cloud-amazon-ec2/ http://c1.athollroad.eu/2012/10/31/amazon-elastic-compute-cloud-amazon-ec2/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:22:43 +0000 http://c1.athollroad.eu/?p=12 Continue reading →]]> I’ve just come to the end of my free Amazon EC2 Micro Instance (see http://aws.amazon.com/free).  After 1 month of paying I’m over $15 for a tiny site with all the OS updating turned off! Imagine what would happen if you got hit by dos.

Conclusion: great service, to difficult to cost and to liable to unexpected bills.

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