Xpressmark – Setting it up on prgmr.com
I enjoyed an impressive service of that of slicehost for hosting xpressmark. But the annual cost of hosting it (a 256MB slice) comes at a price tag of 240 USD (-20 USD for an annual membership) which is a bit on the expensive side considering the fact that I don’t get any revenue out of it. Nevertheless I didnt want to bring it down either. The number of visitors to the site was always on the rise and I felt that people enjoy the service.
So I was looking for an alternative hosting solution (a VDS ofcourse). I came across another solution provider prgmr.com who provided the same solution at 40% of the price.That was pretty cool. And their tag We don’t assume you are stupid means you are on your own once you are given your slice. Though the same applies to slicehost, they have a pretty good console that helps you out in setting up your slice unlike prgmr.com. Rightly so they dont assume you are stupid.
I was successfully able to set it up, was able to setup the environment, bring the server up and migrate the data. But unfortunately couldn’t access the service outside the server, blame it on iptables, had to shut it down and then bingo… Xpressmark back to life in a brand new server (Yes, Luke and his team were in the process of configuring the box and the links to buy the slice werent even made public and I was lucky to get the slice pretty quickly after shooting a mail to them). I will post my experience with prgmr.com in the coming days. Hope it will be as good as slicehost.
how many visitors of your website in monthly ?, i am wondering since you are using java apps, is it enough only use 256 MB in prmgr ? Have you ever experienced some issue there ?
Thanks
Well, visitor count per month doesn’t cross 200. Yes 256 MB is certainly not enough, but it works for me considering that its not hit by huge visitor count. I’m working on a new version of this app with lot more features which im planning on a 512 MB slice. Also I’m not planning to take this one commercially, just my pet project to help people bookmark their videos, so not ready to spend a lot on this.