Congrats on Linode! Great choice, I am also running a linode box. And like craig, I have things running on it that I don’t really need but I wanted to run because I couldn’t before. :P

@ k00pa:

Yeah, I suspect that having to do my own updates will be the only downside of this move. :P

@ StDoodle:

Interesting. Usually work connections tend to be good. I have a 50/20 FiOS account here which is several times faster than my Comcast connection at home.

@ Craig Betts:

Hey, good idea. Might be cleaner than doing a dist-upgrade on my own.

@ Ron:

I’m fairly sure that both Firefox and Chrome do some pre-loading in the background these days (unless you have disabled it manually). Plus, once you load the page once stuff like CSS, images and etc usually sit in cache, making subsequent load times take a fraction of the original load time.

I guess the sluggishness of my site was most evident when logged into the dashboard and editing posts. That’s where the real slowdowns were.

My experience with tickets with Linode have all been sub 5 min, but all simple stuff.

Its really quite handy, I use it alot for things like a small webdav server for mobile org notes/privatish blog, or as an ssh tunnel when on open wifi networks, or as an ipv6 tunnel.

I dont think I could go back to not having it. I sorta wish when using the ssh tunnel that the data center was closer.

Never had an issue with your blog being slow before thou, a couple of times it wouldnt load at all. Wonder if google reader, preloads the source site or caches the data in some way. Thou im not sure how rss works does the content still come directly from the source site (the feed being meta-data only)?

On a side note on the fly preview is awesome, and so markdown for comments

Nice move! Works great from here too…

Awesomesauce! I have been really happy with Linode. I swapped over May 1st so my exposure is little as well. Personally, you can’t beat the price for the resources. I especially like having control over the reverse lookup. People trust me more now that it looks like I actually own the IP address. When it comes time to upgrade the OS, just get another slice for a month and take your time transitioning over since local traffic is free on Linode.

I am glad it worked out for you. I am sure you will be like me and start writing all kinds of cool scripts to run that you were not allowed to do before.

I have a generally crappy connection here at work, and the load was near-instantaneous for me as well. Nice to see you’re back!

Load times are better here also!

Now just don’t forgot to update your server when new security patches are available ;)

@ Tino:

Ops, I forgot about that. The preview button should be back now. I disabled it and the comment quick-tags because they were the least crucial plugins I had. :)

@ jambarama:

Awesome, glad it’s not just me that’s seeing the load time improvements. :)

Wow, the load times are dramatically better. Great change!

Congratulations!

A small thing: can we get the preview comment button back? (I assume you disabled it to improve performance on the old host?) I promise I will not use it too much, and consume all that new fancy bandwith you got :)