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April 20, 2010
 

If you are changing web hosts...

Recently, I moved from Slicehost to Linode. For one particular site, Slicehost was my name server. When I had everything working on Linode, I cancelled my Slicehost account, thinking the DNS settings on Linode would take over and my domain name would be pointing to the right place.

Well, it didn't at first...but I know DNS changes can take time. So I waited...nothing. Checked the DNS settings on Linode. Everything looked right. So I waited some more...nothing. The whois information still showed Slicehost as the name server for the domain. I started worrying that I should have changed something on the Slicehost account before deleting my account.

Finally, it dawned on me to check my domain registrar (I use Site5) and see if there were any settings there. Sure enough, that's where you can set the name servers for the domain. Changed to point to Linode's name servers, and life was good again. My sincere apologies to any of the two people who might have tried to access that site during my fit of stupidity!

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March 1, 2010
 

Slicehost Adds 32-bit Images, Linode is Still Cheaper

A little while ago, I put up a small post about why Linode is (slightly) better than Slicehost. One of my reasons was that Slicehost defaults to 64-bit versions of Linux, meaning running the same applications take up more memory (other people have provided more qualitative evidence of this). Well, now Slicehost is experimenting with 32-bit userspace, while keeping the kernel 64-bit. That will probably help memory usage, as long as you are using one of the distributions that supports this and don't mind that it's still experimental support on Slicehost's part. There are other ways to do this, too, but...it just seems easier to go with a host that is 32-bit to start with, unless you specifically need a 64-bit system.

Besides, Linode's plans still give you more for the same cost. So I will be sticking with them.

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