Hosting migration story

While our code develops and user base grows, we need to adjust our server hardware to be cheap and powerful enough to handle the load. Here is the timeline:

• up to autumn 2008: Amazon EC2, small instance: 0.5 cores, 1.7 GB RAM
• up to Jan 2009: Gandi.net: 1..2 cores, 1..2 GB RAM
• up to Apr 2009: Serverloft.com L server: 4 cores, 4 GB RAM
• since Apr 2009: Serverloft.com XL server: 4*2 cores, 8 GB RAM

While cloud solutions like EC2 and Gandi.net provide a great deal of flexibility, for us it is still cheaper to stick with traditional dedicated server. Serverloft, while being DS provider, still allows many features previously available only for VDS users: OS reinstall and hard reboot - via WEB interface.