Just a warning, within the next week or so, I'm going to be moving to a new VPS host. Slicehost has been an awesome provider and I highly recommend them to anyone that needs stability and absolute control over up/down sizing and creating new VPS instances on the fly. Their prices leave something to be desired.

I'm going to be relocating to Viviotech because I want to put my money with a company that support the CFML Community. I've been grilling the Viviotech guys since CFUnited and gauging their service. I recently gave them a full pro/con list that compared their service with Slicehost. The end result is that Slicehost wins on the automation front. Viviotech wins on price comparison ( 1 gig of ram and unmetered bandwidth for $50 bucks? (Ultra Package) Sold! ).

Switching VPS will finally give me a chance to do the following:

• Relocate Railo off of Resin and onto Tomcat which will finally sync with how I have my development server setup at home.
• Move off of the web-rat.com domain. It's frustrating, but my domain is getting blocked for "porn" and it's just silly. There's no porn here and none of the firewall companies will tell me what to do to fix this issue. So, moving to a new domain will finally break that vicious cycle. I'll be keeping web-rat.com for sentimental / other reasons.

The new domain is being setup when I have time to plunk away at it.  Currently I'm setting up the box and updating it, setting up all the essentials and locking it down. When the time is right, I'll switch RSS feeds over and start setting up redirects.

jason olmsted wrote on 10/09/09 11:12 AM

Thanks for the post. I hadn't realized that VPS prices had gotten that competitive with shared hosting. I just checked out Viviotech and after a little downtime with Hostek today, it looks really tempting.

Definitely looking forward to any posts discussing your experience with them.

Thanks again.

Eric Cobb wrote on 10/09/09 11:32 AM

"I'll be keeping web-rat.com for sentimental / other reasons."

Porn?? ;-)

(sorry, I couldn't resist!)

Todd Rafferty wrote on 10/09/09 11:51 AM

@Eric: Ha! Can't beat 'em? Join 'em. Hrmmmmm.

Dan Skaggs wrote on 10/09/09 12:58 PM

That's on my list of things to do in the next several weeks as well. I've been looking at going to VivioTech so it's nice to see that I'm thinking similar to other folks. The only thing that kind of concerns me with VivioTech is server backups. Slicehost makes it gravy to back up your slice. Maybe I just haven't read enough about VivioTech to spot their backup info yet, but it's something I have to figure out before moving everything to them. I've had at least one slice with Slicehost for over 2 1/2 years and they've been great, but, like you, the pricing at VivioTech as well as their understanding of CF is very attractive.

Todd Rafferty wrote on 10/09/09 1:00 PM

@Dan: Viviotech has daily backups and you can even go in and restore things on a file-by-file basis where as slicehost is an all or nothing procedure. Oh and it's part of your package, it doesn't cost extra.

Jake Munson wrote on 10/09/09 7:07 PM

I have been with Vivio for a couple of years now and I love them. Great prices, great support, great stability...can't complain. :)

Tony Garcia wrote on 10/12/09 3:11 PM

I will wholeheartedly endorse Viviotech. Their cusotmer/technical service is awesome (and I have pretty high standards when it comes to that). I don't think you can go wrong with them.

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