virtual servers... mmm....

Tuesday, February 10, 2004, at 12:42PM

By Eric Richardson

I'm somewhat in the market for a hosting provider right now. I say somewhat because I don't have a firm timetable on when I need to make a switch, and might end up getting colo space on the barter system. Anyway... Were I to be purchasing hosting at this moment, I think I would be going with Linode. I hadn't heard of them until today, but they offer exactly what I need. I've been spoiled by having my own box in a colo. I run qmail, I play with console apps, I do whatever. With Linode you get a virtual Linux server, so you can do all that. You get to pick a distro to install, and user-side everything behaves like it's your own box. Pricing is pretty good, and the ability to remotely reboot and reinstall with confidence is very cool. Definitely something I'll be keeping in mind.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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