As of today I’ve started moving my sites over to Dreamhost! I had been running everything on a Sun Blade 100 using Ubuntu for SPARC, hosted on my cable connection but the uplink was crippled to 512 kbit/s. My blog is first to move, and also moves to a new domain, darxr.net. All old links should redirect fine. I’ve also upgraded my blog to Typo 4 . Everything went pretty smoothly except for a few MySQL problems which were solved by using a fresh database schema and importing the old articles from the command line.

I’ll be moving over the urlmarkr site and also migrating the SVN repository to Dreamhost in the next few days. I have already moved the site to Drupal and again all seems fine. urlmarkr also moves to it’s own domain, urlmarkr.org.

The main reason I’ve choose Dreamhost is their Ruby on Rails support seems pretty good and the control panel is NOT CPanel. I can’t stand using CPanel, its UI is terrible. I am a command line user most of the time, but when I have to use a web based interface, CPanel is one that I’d just rather avoid.

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