So, here is the deal… I like to tinker. A lot.

Today during a discussion with my dear friend Nathan, we decided we needed to install byobu so we could configure and setup our virtual terminals with ease. Our server, however, was running Intrepid and there was no installation candidate. So, rather than take the easy route and add the PPA, we said “eff it, let’s upgrade”.

A sudo do-release-upgrade later, the upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty kicked off, finished great, rebooted, and we started the upgrade to Karmic goodness. Again, things were running smoothly, new packages were installed, and another reboot.

After the reboot, I got caught up with real work and totally forgot all about byobu, why we were upgrading, etc.

This is where serveraxis.com comes in, and the reason for this post. Before heading out that day, I checked my email one more time and saw an email from support@serveraxis.com about my VPS. They said it was not starting and recommended I take a look at it. I tried to ssh to it, and it was unresponsive, so it appeared very down indeed. I wrote them a quick email back asking if they had any recommendations, they said they would take a look.

During my commute home, I got another email from support about how they had located and corrected the kernel issue and that the VPS was operational again.

Here’s the deal. I looked and looked at several VPS providers, and even tried two others, before landing on serveraxis. I initially landed on them because the specs you got for the price were outstanding. What I didn’t realize I was getting was proactive support (they told me I had a problem before I realized it) and super speedy problem resolution.

For those of you out there nerdy enough to know what a VPS is and might consider getting your own little slice of the cloud, I hands down recommend checking out serveraxis.com.