Mortfiles Evolved

Always trying new things…

// June 30th, 2009 // Development

I barely have time to sit down before I find all these new things to enjoy and today I found TwitterBoard and something as scary as a cloud VPS service called VPS.net.

Twitterboard you can see here to the left and it’s a nifty thing that I really like and one that takes the Twitter experience out of the tabletop applications and into the web in a very nice way. This could prove a really nice product for the future indeed!

VPS.net is my second find of the day and it’s one of the best looking websites I have seen in a very long time combined with really nice products indeed. VPS.net is basicly a VPS version of the cloud reselling industry where you buy “nodes” with specific sets of allocated RAM, CPU, Harddrive space and so on. Starting at only $20 for the first node its cheap considering all the benefits you get from cloudhosting such as pretty much always stay online, instant recovery and the very easy to use system to rebuild nodes unlimited times as you see fit with different configurations.

The only downside is that the upgrades are a bit steep and if you want to toss in WHM/CPanel you pretty much need 2 nodes right away and end up in the mid $50 region right away. It would have been nice if there could have been some middleground there with 384RAM for $25 + $10 for Cpanel. This was the only reason I stuck to Geekstorage and their $35 VPS deal that include Cpanel and comes with 512MB RAM, free daily backups and support.

VPS.net are building a WHMCS module and as soon as that is ready I will check it out and see if I can include that into Mortfiles Evolved. Even if I did not pick VPS.net today I will certainly use them in the future…unless something better comes along!