Published on August 9, 2008 by Hallaj under Rantings
Well, some might have already known that I’m running this site as well as my
inetUtils on a
VPS platform. So far, almost all the
Malaysian web hosting companies are offering
OpenVZ based VPS and I’m basically running on one now. However, what I would really prefer would be getting a
Xen based VPS instead. The reason would be rather simple, I would have a greater control over the VPS and do things like building/loading my own kernel module, update to a greater version of OS without worrying to crash the parent/host OS but it’s just not possible with OpenVZ (as far as I know of.. I’ve tried updating my CentOS 4.5 to CentOS 5.2 just to see my VPS die for about 12 hours).
I’m starting to consider moving away from Malaysian hosting and get on with another VPS from outside. One of my friend has a server in
ThePlanet and I’ve chopped his server off and made a VPS on it and I’ve been told that I could use it for myself but I would prefer being in Malaysia for certain reasons (my Trace Route from Malaysia for example). If you’re reading this far and know of any decent/good Malaysian hosting company who offers Xen based VPS, do post a reply to let me know. I’m seriously considering a move.. and I guess it’s almost confirmed, at least.. that’s what I think.. Oh well..