Monthly Archives: August 2007

Sliced Goodness

Welp, I’ve switched over this domain (randys.org) to Slicehost’s DNS servers so you should be reading this from a freshly installed Archlinux running Ruby on Rails and Mephisto (along with MySQL, PHP, Apache, yadda yadda yadda). It appears to be a noticeable improvement in terms of speed. void appears to be a little off. Looks …

August 22, 2007 – 2:37 am | By randy | Posted in General Nerdery, Home | Tagged , | Comments (0)

How-To: Install Archlinux on Slicehost

I recently acquired a 256 Slice from Slicehost. While their distribution selection is good, I was hoping for something, well, different. My old VPS is rocking Ubuntu (quite well) but I just want something else. Slicehost’s other distributions weren’t going to cut it. Ubuntu Dapper – Already running that.. that’s how I got here. CentOS …

August 17, 2007 – 8:43 am | By randy | Posted in Code Chunks, General Nerdery, Home, How-To | Tagged , , | Comments (4)

VPSLink, I'm breaking up with you

It’s not you, it’s me (again) It’s been a year since I first signed up with VPSLink. They’ve been a decent host for the most part. They had some troubles in the beginning with disk I/O and server loads, but those have pretty much been kept at a minimum as of late. I still experience …

August 12, 2007 – 12:51 am | By randy | Posted in General Nerdery, Home | Tagged , , | Comments (3)