I'm still hosting this on blogger obviously, and my mail still lives on Google Apps. I just don't feel that need for control any more, so convenience wins. The big news is the impending shutdown of PlantSix. I've been running my own hosting server since 2002, and the damn thing has run without a reboot for nearly 2 and 1/2 years. Sadly I got sick of the expense, and don't have the energy for even the most infrequent customer support.
So I signed up with Slicehost and fired up an Ubuntu slice. Their product is good, fast, and reliable. They have a simple and concise control panel for starting and restarting slices, DNS, billing, and even a cool AJAX serial console. You can provision new slices with a few clicks and for an extra $5/month you can even snapshot existing ones at will, with automatic scheduled backups. I moved my limited static file serving over there. Most of my images are long since on flickr, but I still have some old junk to keep online. I need various places on the internet to run traceroute, nmap and other such network investigation tools. I've also decided to run a Tor node. Wow has that made Snort go crazy.
If only I could get FreeBSD on there, I would probably sign up for a second small slice just to have that for playing with. I hear it runs on Xen now, I just have no idea how well.
