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VPS.net is Dead. Long Live ZippyKid.com!

by Socrates
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A couple of weeks ago I moved Singularity Weblog to ZippyKid.com. Since my previous experience with VPS.net was so nightmarishly traumatic, I felt compelled to share a few thoughts on the companies and the process that I have had to deal with during the past year or two. My first blog host was BlueHost. Overall, I would say they did a very decent job while my blog was starting up and had little traffic. The problems started when traffic grew bigger than what their shared hosting could handle and the BlueHost technical support was simply beating around the bush rather than admitting they couldn’t handle it anymore.  Eventually, I figured out that I need to get a virtual private server and, following the recomendations of several high-profile bloggers, I signed up with VPS.net. I spent roughly about a year on [...]

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