Finding a good a VPS provider.

I've been researching VPS providers for the last couple weeks. There are a lot to choose from - everybody wants my money! Makes for a difficult choice.


I finally chose VPSLink. Why? Well honestly I liked their website, its looks good... sort of web 2.0-ish... also I liked that they offer VPS setups based on development environments (LAMP or Rails), but the main thing I liked was the price.... $75 per month gets you a 40GB hard drive & dedicated 1GB RAM & 1000GB bandwidth.... sounds a bit too good to be true... we'll see.

I have a few different goals.

#1. To learn Linux (without having to actually install it on my laptop).

#2. Setup FreeNX (NoMachine.com). This will allow me to access the VPS server (using gnome or kde) from anywhere.

#2a. Eventually my plan is to run it on a Macbook, using the new Spaces (virtual desktop) feature in Leopard; one screen will be Mac OS X, the other will be Linux.

#2b. Having a remote gnome session that I can use to surf the net from work (bypass corporate firewall and blocked sites) ;-)

#3. Have complete control of my webserver. Rails, Mono, PHP, Cron jobs, anything I want!

#4. A development machine that I can access from anywhere.



And by the way... Here is an interesting blog post I found that talks about setting up Rails on VPSLink. Rails on vpslink 
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