I've been running a single node from VPS.net for about a year now. Please note that my specific experience has been in their "Chicago Zone D data center", but if you check out their status page or search Twitter, you'll find a lot of others having the same issues. While there's a lot of good things to write about, where they fail is the most important area to me: availabilty.
At work, we had a need for software that addresses a specific problem. We have a bunch of users that need to share files in a secure manner via HTTPS, but the app has to be drop-dead easy. Being an e-commerce shop, we could have written our own, but we didn't have the time and resources. We could have outsourced it to box.net or a similar service, but the company frowns upon outsourced solutions. I happened to stumble upon FileRun, and I have to admit that I've been very impressed. Read on for the full review.
After taking the dive and upgrading my Alltel HTC PPC6800 to the latest Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM, instead of restoring all of my old stale apps, I decided to redo things from scratch. Here's a list (in no particular order) of apps that I deemed as must-haves.
I'm not new to the virtualization scene, but I'm no expert either -- I've been using VMWare Workstation since 1.0, VMWare Server since 1.0, and Xen since around 2.0. Well, I needed a Windows XP install on my laptop, and decided it would be a good time to see how VirtualBox compared.