If you want complete control over your own Linux server, including shell access and the lot, without the high costs of dedicated hosting or colocation, a VPS is the way to go.
I recently setup a VPS with Linode. I’m on the lowest plan and, even though I’m running Apache, Postfix, Dovecot, PostgreSQL, MySQL, my resource usage is minor, far below the amount allocated to my VPS. I use it to manage my own domain, web and e-mail hosting, Subversion repository, and more. This blog is currently hosted on my Linode VPS.
Linode Dashboard
The Linode user interface is not the usual CPanel guff. It’s simple, unobtrusive, and intuitive. Best of all, it just works.
Here you can see my configuration profile, disk images, current status, network and storage summaries, and some recent jobs. Further down the page (which you cannot see here) there are also graphs of CPU usage, network usage, and disk I/O.
So far, my experience with Linode has been great – I’ve been with them since 13th July, 2008. All in all, I’m happy.
I’d be interested in hearing of experiences with other VPS providers.
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