This website has just been moved to its new home at Slicehost which is basically DiY hosting for nerds. So far I've been hugely impressed with their plans, their control panel, their technical articles, and their overall philosophy.

Before Slicehost I was running my site off an old computer in my living room. Now $20 a month means no more turning the website off at night and when I'm on vacation. It also means a much faster connection and a more powerful server.

With the move to new hardware I've also changed my server software configuration and am now using the Phusion Passenger mod_rails module for Apache instead of an nginx/thin cluster setup. All the hype about mod_rails was justified -- the thing was a breeze to get running.