Which hosting should I choose?
Okay, again as per normal, my yearly “ritual” that I hate: Migrating all my websites.
As I am being kicked out from the current dedicated server located in SG QALA data center due to chucky’s new evil plan :p (hahah sorry chucky if u read this ;p), I need to find new server for all my websites…
Anyway been looking for several hosting and dedicated servers from several places. Actually, location of the server is important, but due to my budget I had to choose overseas hosting providers as their price are much cheaper than Singapore’s providers.
For dedicated servers, my preference would be LayeredTech’s servers. Their lowest unamanaged dedicated server will cost around US$70 per month… and nope I’m not going to fork out that kind of money for the site… at least at the moment. Anyway my sites revenue is going down now, so I have to plan well… 
Getting VPS (Virtual Private Server) or shared hosting can be an option too, but since two of my website needs dedicated IP and wildcard dns with unlimited subdomains this can be difficult to get.
GRID hosting can be an alternate to dedicated servers and this can be easily scalable. MediaTemple’s (MT) Grid-Server set up is tempting and their price is unbelievably cheap, just US$20/month. However comparing the features with US$49/month GridLayer by LayeredTech, I feel GridLayer is much better as they stated clearly what are my quotas, memory, bandwidth, etc, while MediaTemple’s (MT) is also using GPU (Grid Processing Unit) to measure the site performance which I’m afraid my site reach over the allocated GPU per month and my monthly charge could be higher than US$20!.
I also checked out Site5’s hosting packages. Their MultiSite features seems a great, just what I need for my sites requirement. Furthermore with their current promotion for US$99 per year is a great steal!.
GridLayer, MediaTemple and Site5 all supports Ruby on Rails… so transferring my blog wouldn’t be a problem :), anyway will read more on their features as well as checking out their reputation as hosting provider…
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