My blog has been down for a while because I was moving it. I recently been researching some options for virtual hosting environments. I came across Rackspace because I have used Rackspace over the years many times and also Robert Scoble is part of Rackspace and really supports it and I trust that guys word.

So after creating an account, I was amazed how unbelievably fast their site is at creating your virtual machine. They offer Windows hosting now (okay, it’s beta but still) which is what I am running my server on. The primary reason for this is because my applications that I will be eventually hosting are ASP.NET 4 applications so they need a windows server. Right now because Windows hosting is in beta I don’t get the backup support and so forth but that’s alright as I have all of my files and configurations being backed up to an Amazon S3 bucket.

So, my next challenge is to bring a couple other blogs I own over to this server which should be no problem. Oh yeah did I mention that within the control panel of your virtual server you can manage all of your domains with Rackspace? Makes it very easy to setup my domains and CNAMEs and MX records in one spot instead of with my registrar GoDaddy.