Server migration
These last days I’ve been migrating my websites to a new shared server based on XEN technology. The provider it’s slidehost and they surprised me because the server is frightening fast. The server I’m sharing is a 2 processors, 4 cores Opteron Machine and as my slide have 256mb ram I think I’m sharing the machine with another 15 customers in a 4Gb ram machine. That’s not overselling at all, at least if we compare with the massive overselling other VPS based on OpenVZ/Virtuozzo have.
The result is that all the websites are generated instantly. For example my blosxom based Spanish blog which have serious I/O access because is filesystem based and has no cache (so it need to regenerate the page every single visit) took an average of 0.35 seconds to generate in the old server and 0.0000 seconds (Sorry I don’t know how to use more decimals and I don’t really care) in this one.
Seriously, I’m so happy because I’m running more services than in the old server and while this one barely have 1% of continuous load the old one always had over 20%.
They are running the same software environment, a (strongly personalized) debian but here is the catch: I need to admit that the old server was a PIII but… hey! It was not shared with anybody and It had more RAM.
So thanks to Moore’s law, XEN technology and Slicehost.
If somebody is interested in test this provider, please contact me, I can give you a referrer code to make us save a few bucks.