Today I switched hosts and purchased a virtual server from bytemark. I’ve got to say I really like it. It’s cheap, fast and seems to be quite stable. The new setup is
- PHP 5.3
- Mysql 5.1
- Lighttpd
Which I guess makes it a LLMP stack rather than a LAMP stack. I’ve become a big fan of Lighttpd recently, its pretty much Apache but without the bloat. Its also got some nice traffic shaping features that seem to be lacking from Apache and uses way less resources. Pretty handy when your server only has 256mb of ram.
Moving over to a virtual host has been pretty simple as has migrating the blog from blogspot to wordpress. The new virtual host has given me much greater control over my blog so you can expect to see some new funky code in the near future.
Tags: Lighttpd, MySQL, PHP, Virtual Server