I've been contemplating recently whether to save some money by changing from a dedicated server back to a hosting service, i.e. site5. I managed to break the server by unwisely doing an apt-get update/upgrade which introduced some horrible dependancy problem.
There seemed to me to be a few possible solutions to this:
- hack around in the apt/dpkg files to try to fix it
- wait for someone else to fix it
- compile it all up myself
- start again from scratch
In considering the latter approach I checked out the http://www.site5.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php%3Fid=75 site and found a limited offer of an 80% discount (eight oh) for 15G disk space and 1Tb of bandwidth if I signed up there and then: so I signed up there and then. This should save me over £700 over the next two years (seven hundred). Sold.
The 'condition' of the offer is that I have to tell people about it (the 'tell all your friends' special event). Since I don't have any friends I'll tell you.
The site is now back on site5.com and looking good. It 'feels' as fast as the dedicated server but maybe I'm the only one on it so far.
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