Probably have to move to Russia also.

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On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Jarred White <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sweet tip. Thanks.
> 
> While we're on the subject I recommend anything in Iceland if you value 
> privacy. I think by now most of us have heard what happened to LavaBit.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Brad Bendily <[email protected]> wrote:
>> So, years ago I created a "slice" at Slicehost to run my personal website and
>> have root on a box somewhere. A few years ago, Rackspace bought Slicehost 
>> and then about
>> a year ago my VM was moved into the Rackspace managed site. Which has been 
>> working fine.
>> In fact, my cost from slicehost to rackspace was cut in half because of the 
>> difference in
>> rackspace's pricing model. So, i went from $20/month to $11 or so.
>> But, that slice runs an older Gentoo and i can't seem to get it to upgrade 
>> with an emerge.
>> To much stuff fails, i fought it for a while but gave up.
>> Then I found this site:
>> https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing
>> 
>> For the same price i'm currently paying, $10/mo. I can triple my current 
>> specs. or for half the price, i can double my specs. So, for $10/mo. i've 
>> created a CentOS 6.4 "droplet". 1GBmem. 1 CPU, 30GB SSD Disk with 2TB 
>> transfer.
>> My current slice is 256m, 10gb, 1TB, 4xcpu.
>> 
>> So far so good. There are less OS choices than rackspace, but enough options.
>> If I build a new VM at rackspace, it would be $16/mo. Rackspace doesn't have 
>> the VM choice that
>> I currently have. 
>> 
>> If you're interested, please use this code:
>> 
>>  https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=416e93cbbf4e
>> 
>> 
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