I have a dedicated server at iweb8.com (canadian company, extremely reliable so far, very transparent about any issues on the company blog--which is hosted elsewhere just in case). I like my dedicated server, but I recently bought a 512MB slice at slicehost so I could experiment with CouchDB (which is alpha software, so I wasn't comfortable running it on my live production server), and it makes me wonder if I'm not wasting my money on the bigger dedicated server.
I have my dedicated server running every service I need (Apache with PHP, PostgreSQL, Postfix, Dovecot, ASSP, Helma), like many people do. But I'm beginning to think it would be better to have the simplicity and peace of mind of separate virtual servers for a few of these functions. E.g., Mail on its own box, Apache-with-PHP on a box, lighter-weight Apache with Helma on another.
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I have a dedicated server at iweb8.com (canadian company, extremely reliable so far, very transparent about any issues on the company blog--which is hosted elsewhere just in case). I like my dedicated server, but I recently bought a 512MB slice at slicehost so I could experiment with CouchDB (which is alpha software, so I wasn't comfortable running it on my live production server), and it makes me wonder if I'm not wasting my money on the bigger dedicated server.
I have my dedicated server running every service I need (Apache with PHP, PostgreSQL, Postfix, Dovecot, ASSP, Helma), like many people do. But I'm beginning to think it would be better to have the simplicity and peace of mind of separate virtual servers for a few of these functions. E.g., Mail on its own box, Apache-with-PHP on a box, lighter-weight Apache with Helma on another.