Cheap dedicated hosting!

I’ve finally found a relatively cheap dedicated webhost, that allows me to evade this stupid VPS bullshit and actually let me do what I want. That host is called Hetzner Online, located in Germany.

If you don’t need mission critical hosting and can accept running your stuff on consumer hardware, this might just be for you. 50€ a month nets me an Athlon X2 5600+ with two gig of RAM and two 400GB SATA drives. My silly three-share VPS with lagged CPU shares, 768 megs and 15GB of disk would have costed me a little more than 40€ once the promo is over. Since I don’t host the New York stock exchange on this box, I don’t need to think twice where I go.

The best thing of all this is that I’m running OpenSolaris 2008.11 and it’s AMP stack on this thing. Granted, OpenSolaris isn’t a supported option over at Hetzner (and likely won’t be for a while), but for a little fee, they’ll burn the ISO onto a CD and let you screw two hours with an IP-KVM.

This blog is now OpenSolaris powered! \o/