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…or, “I’m such a big nerd that I’m writing a tribute to my startup’s website hosting company.” Even though we pay them for services. Sheesh :)

I’m now at Rimu (http://rimuhosting.com) and they are nothing short of outstanding. It’s more expensive ($20/mo, billable 1 month at a time if you prefer) but they give multiple site discounts and their customer support is THE BEST in the business. All that and you get a VPS thats like you’re own *nix box. Only thing you can’t do: recompile the kernel. If you can afford the higher price and the logistics of moving your site, don’t waste one more minute of your life using any hosting service other than Rimu.

Oh — and you get a choice of four available *nix kernels when you purchase a new VPS. I went with the latest Ubuntu, so installation/configuration went something (approximately) like this:

> apt-get update > apt-get install mysql > apt-get install apache2 > apt-get install python > apt-get install mysql-python

I manually checked out the latest Django subversion trunk and configured it, as I wanted to be able to keep up with the bleeding edge Django state (as it’s far superior than their released packages).

And no, I’m not a Rimu employee or something — just someone who has fought with craptacular (or at least “less-than-90%-satisfying”) hosting services for years.

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