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It's been one year since I\nsigned up for a JohnCompanies server,\nand though I've had no complaints whatsoever, I've signed up for\na server instance with JVDS.com and have moved\njust about everything over.

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Why? Because it's cheaper, and I have less disposable income these\ndays. And, well, it seemed like fun to try another virtual server\ncompany, since I've been looking into it so much lately. The new\nserver has less capacity than the one I've had at JohnCompanies, but I\nreally don't need all that much -- just a roof over my files and a\nroot password. Well, I don't really need a root password, but it's\nnice to have so that I can tinker around with more things with fewer\nquestions asked of the management. (For what it's worth, we're still\nusing JohnCompanies servers for hosting at my work.)

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I've almost got this server migration thing down to a science, though,\nsince I had everything over and up in a few hours. And that was going\nfrom a FreeBSD system to Debian Linux. Personally, though I fully\nrespect FreeBSD and the ports collection, I like Debian and apt-get\nso much better. But who knows, maybe in another year, I'll be moving\nagain for the hell of it.

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I don't have much in the way of reputation for JVDS, but the management\nhas been very responsive to requests so far. In fact, they're using\nRT for their support ticket\nmanagement. Responsiveness has been one of the most impressive aspects\nof JohnCompanies, since between my personal server and the servers\nI use at work, it tends to take less than an hour to get resolution\non any problems I've had. So far, JVDS has yet to disappoint me as\nwell.

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\r\nIt's been one year since I\r\nsigned up for a JohnCompanies server,\r\nand though I've had no complaints whatsoever, I've signed up for\r\na server instance with JVDS.com and have moved\r\njust about everything over.\r\n

\r\nWhy? Because it's cheaper, and I have less disposable income these\r\ndays. And, well, it seemed like fun to try another virtual server\r\ncompany, since I've been looking into it so much lately. The new\r\nserver has less capacity than the one I've had at JohnCompanies, but I\r\nreally don't need all that much -- just a roof over my files and a\r\nroot password. Well, I don't really need a root password, but it's\r\nnice to have so that I can tinker around with more things with fewer\r\nquestions asked of the management. (For what it's worth, we're still\r\nusing JohnCompanies servers for hosting at my work.)\r\n

\r\nI've almost got this server migration thing down to a science, though,\r\nsince I had everything over and up in a few hours. And that was going\r\nfrom a FreeBSD system to Debian Linux. Personally, though I fully\r\nrespect FreeBSD and the ports collection, I like Debian and apt-get\r\nso much better. But who knows, maybe in another year, I'll be moving\r\nagain for the hell of it.\r\n

\r\nI don't have much in the way of reputation for JVDS, but the management\r\nhas been very responsive to requests so far. In fact, they're using\r\nRT for their support ticket\r\nmanagement. Responsiveness has been one of the most impressive aspects\r\nof JohnCompanies, since between my personal server and the servers\r\nI use at work, it tends to take less than an hour to get resolution\r\non any problems I've had. So far, JVDS has yet to disappoint me as\r\nwell.\r\n\r\nshortname=switched_to_jvds\r\n\r\n
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\r\n ", "parentPath": "./content/posts/archives/2003", "path": "2003/08/31/switched-to-jvds", "summary": "It's been one year since I\nsigned up for a JohnCompanies server,\nand though I've had no complaints whatsoever, I've signed up for\na server instance with JVDS.com and have moved\njust about everything over.\nWhy? Because it's cheaper, and I have less disposable income these\ndays. And, well, it seemed like fun to try another virtual server\ncompany, since I've been looking into it so much lately. The new\nserver has less capacity than the one I've had at JohnCompanies, but I\nreally don't need all that much -- just a roof over my files and a\nroot password. Well, I don't really need a root password, but it's\nnice to have so that I can tinker around with more things with fewer\nquestions asked of the management. (For what it's worth, we're still\nusing JohnCompanies servers for hosting at my work.)\nI've almost got this server migration thing down to a science, though,\nsince I had everything over and up in a few hours. And that was going\nfrom a FreeBSD system to Debian Linux. Personally, though I fully\nrespect FreeBSD and the ports collection, I like Debian and apt-get\nso much better. But who knows, maybe in another year, I'll be moving\nagain for the hell of it.\nI don't have much in the way of reputation for JVDS, but the management\nhas been very responsive to requests so far. In fact, they're using\nRT for their support ticket\nmanagement. Responsiveness has been one of the most impressive aspects\nof JohnCompanies, since between my personal server and the servers\nI use at work, it tends to take less than an hour to get resolution\non any problems I've had. So far, JVDS has yet to disappoint me as\nwell.", "needsBuild": true, "prevPostPath": "2003/08/31/bookmark-blogger-python", "prevPostTitle": "Bookmark Blogger in Python", "nextPostPath": "2003/09/02/xsl-scraper", "nextPostTitle": "Using web services and XSLT to scrape RSS from HTML" }