My first experience with a VPS has been interesting.
Objectives:
- use a vps for hosting web pages, a reader, drop box, … other things (initially Linode, now with DigitalOcean). At $10/mnt, (1GB) price is comparable to previous dreamhost.com web host provider
- get setup with my own email domain (***@k6wlr.com). This was done with namecheap.com ($28/mnt)
Namecheap also does registrations …
Setting up a LAMP + Wordpress server from scratch has been a learning experience and a fun weekend project.