I’ve been busy for the last 4 days learning myself some system administration. I purchased a ‘slice’ from SliceHost and have to say that I’m very pleased with it. They’re prices are fantastic and you have basically no restrictions as to what you can do with your server (keep it legal, is all they say on their site). Obviously, your limited by the amount of memory that happens to come in the slice that you purchase and the disk space and the bandwidth, but those are all understandable limits. Other than that, I have root access to my ‘own’ server that I can setup and customize just the way I like it. Very recommended for anyone looking to get their feet wet with system setup.

So this will be my new home. I’ll be updating on projects I’m working on, random thoughts, and whatever else I can think of. Mostly, it will probably be about Ruby on Rails and web development. I’m also planning (in the next few days) on writing a few articles detailing the steps I took to set up various aspects of my new slice so people who are new to setting up their own server can hopefully learn something. In addition to those tutorials, I will be be releasing 2 of my plugins (has_many_friends and open_id_authentication_mock if you wish to help test them a little bit) for Rails that I’ve written to use in my own project. So, I’ll be quite busy and I hope to keep this place updated. I hope I find some time to do some customizations to this theme too.

And with that.. I sleep.