hosting

I signed up for my first web hosting account back in 1998, a shared plan with 20 Mb. of disk space and five mailboxes running in a Windows NT 4.0 server. At US$ 72.50 per month it seemed like a good deal at the time.

Two months later, with a couple of hundred dollars less in my pocket, I started searching for other options. I moved from Windows to Linux and then tried many providers in shared, reseller and VPS plans.

In 2001 I leased my first dedicated server and started a web hosting business that grew to six servers and more than 500 clients in ten countries. In 2006 I decided to move on, sold the hosting business and bought a server for my own projects that I colocated in a Los Angeles data center.

During all that time I worked in dozens of web development projects hosted in lots of different configurations. Obviously, I've had enough of hosting experiences to know when a provider delivers and is developer friendly. JaguarPC is such a provider.

I've spent almost two years running a VPS with JaguarPC (affiliate link) and now it's time to move my stuff and change my hosting provider, and this time I'm going the colocation way.