I’m looking for a Virtual Private Server host. The server I’m currently on is woefully underpowered for the handful of sites I running (on the plus side, it’s been free), and it’s high time that I moved my stuff to a box that’s up to the task.
Ideally, I’d like the following features:
- Virtual Private Server with at least 1GB of RAM (preferably with root access within my instance).
- SSH shell access.
- Decent monthly bandwidth allotment (at least 250GB/month).
- Plenty of disk space (25GB would be be plenty, but I can live with less).
- Hosting of multiple web/email domains.
- PHP5 and MySQL 5.
- Ability to configure many email alias fowards within each domain.
- Procmail for mail filtering.
- DNS hosting, preferably with the ability to directly edit my own zone files, but I’ll live with a web interface if I have to.
Those are listed roughly in order of importance. [...]
WordPress 2.6.2 Release
As most of you have probably already seen in your Dashboard, yesterday afternoon saw the official WordPress 2.6.2 Release. And as mentioned in the comments on my intitial news break on the 2.6.2 Beta, the focus is on two security patches to cover weaknesses in PHP’s random number generation (which affects password encryption strength), and in MySQL’s field length checking. [...]