I recently was running into problems with my old VPS provider ConnectSwitch with things like regular downtime. I wasn’t really bothered to go chasing after them every time so I decided I’d look elsewhere for hosting.

I’d only ever heard good things about SliceHost before so I decided for many reasons on top of their good reputation to give them a try.

So far they’ve been great. I’ve had to talk to support for some little things so far and the response times have been incredibly good. Email’s are replied to almost instantly if you don’t want to try their numerous other support methods like IRC or their own chat service.

On top of all that they’re reasonably priced especially with the Dollar to Euro conversation rates these days.

Long story short, if you need a new host give them a try. It’ll be worth your while

Recently I decided that I would try to replace my Apache installation with one of it’s competitors to see what could be gained from a change. While I’d heard good things (and bad) about Lighttpd (lighty) I decided it would be interesting to go with the underdog nginx.org

nginx.org was originally developed to cater for the needs of Rambler, a Russian search engine. It has quickly gained numbers though, and recent surveys put it as fifth most used web server on the internet today. It has many nice features, but above all has a reputation for stability, something I can’t say Lighttpd has in quantities.

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I was pleasantly surprised today when I logged into the control panel for my blog to find a notification for the release of Wordpress 2.8 Seeing it was a decimal upgrade I decided to have a look and see what 2.8 brought to the table.

Apparently 2.8 is now quite a lot faster than previous versions but the new feature that appeals most to me is the addition of syntax highlighting in the dashboard theme and plugin editor. Syntax highlighting to me makes coding a lot easier.

Whats more wordpress now has seamless upgrades. Gone are the days of manual upgrades. One click now seems to suffice to do everything it needs to do.

Looks like wordpress is certainly making gains still. Let’s hope they keep it up!