Today I snapped up my slice of slicehost.com and so far I am loving it.

By the weekend I can turn down my EC2 instances and move some projects from the Xserves into their new Ubuntu home.

In December I am going to test running my largest project over there, with the hope it can move completely to a VPS solution in 2008.

Hmm. Wonder how long before OpenSolaris will be ready for the VPS market?

For those interested, I am running Ubuntu 7 (Gutsy) running Nginx, Ruby, Rails, Merb, MySQL and a liberal sprinkling of assorted gems.

Email is handled by my own carefully crafted powerhouse servers still.

DNS management is handled through Godaddy and EveryDNS.net.

As for DNS queries, again I highly recommend using OpenDNS. The ability to clear their caches manually after updates is a huge time saver.