Community Matters

After posting about hosting your own blog a couple of days ago, one of my co-workers pointed out to me an interesting new trend that he has seen… more and more server hosting providers offer entry level servers based on Intel Atom motherboards at prices that start to compete with virtual private servers.

That’s an interesting use of the Atom processor (which I tend to think of as the netbook CPU). But for many typical blog hosting scenarios a system like this offers plenty of performance with all the advantages of having your own dedicated server – and really good prices.

InterServer offers a dedicated server (cutely named “VPS Buster”) for $39/mo. Others offer similar pricing. Nice.

(and no, I don’t get money from linking to them, sadly. It was just the cheapest that I found in a few minutes of googling – feel free to comment if you see better deals elsewhere)