Where are you hosting the blog now?

acangiano · on Sept 15, 2011

In the cloud with SoftLayer.

staunch · on Sept 15, 2011

"In the cloud" has come to mean "on the internet" nooooooo. God help us all :-)

revorad · on Sept 15, 2011

That's what I first thought but after looking on the Softlayer site, I think he specifically meant their cloud services, as opposed to the dedicated servers.

acangiano · on Sept 15, 2011

Haha. No, I actually meant a cloud instance and not a dedicated server. SoftLayer offers both.

kd1220 · on Sept 15, 2011

Why not use Amazon EC2? Their free tier (for a year) is more than sufficient for hosting a blog. After the free period is over, you only end up paying about $20/mo for a micro instance with 10GB of EBS.

Does SoftLayer offer anything more substantial than AWS?

acangiano · on Sept 15, 2011

I run a series of blogs and sites on the same instance. The micro-tier wouldn't even remotely cut it. With SoftLayer I get 4 GB of RAM and it's enough thanks to nginx and caching.

catch23 · on Sept 15, 2011

the internet has upgraded from a series of tubes to a cluster of clouds.