But you may have not been able to reach me for the past few days.

Sorry about that – just had a few hiccups while moving my domain + hosting onto the rackspace cloud.

I was attracted to cloud hosting by it’s price and a previous positive interaction with Rackspace through a client. Naively, without much reading and a quick trigger finger, I purchased some cloud hosting.

Little did I know I was escaping my safe world of Panels and easy DNS administration – this was a little more complicated than moving some files around.

When you sign up onto the rackspace cloud, you’re literally portioned off a bare bones linux machine. You choose the distro; and that’s it. Everything else you have to setup yourself. A little daunting for those of us not totally comfortable setting up our own servers; not all developers are necessarily IT guys, and I certainly am not.

But as you can see, I made it out alive and am posting again! Will provide further details in a “5 minute” tutorial of how to get your website up and running on the rackspace cloud servers in no time!