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allsimple.net VPS Review

Rowan — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:56:47 +0000

Time certainly does fly… as such this is a three month review of the VPS service at allsimple. I picked up one of their VPS via LEB to host this blog and a few bits and pieces and have been pleasantly surprised with the results.

The closest equivalent retail package would be at a somewhat [...]

Slicehost 2.5 Year Review

Rowan — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:43:54 +0000

Most of what I said here stands. In the time I was with Slicehost the hardware I was on had an issue requiring a reboot once, other than that the service and network was solid across the entire two and a half years. I didn’t have much reason to call on their support so can’t [...]

‘The Road’ Short Book Review

Rowan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:37:40 +0000

I’d been wanting to get a hold of this for a couple of years but had never actually come across it in a local book shop. ‘The Road’ is possibly the bleakest fiction I’ve ever read. The story follows a boy and his father struggling to survive in a journey south to the coast across [...]

‘The White Tiger’ Short Book Review

Rowan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:51:38 +0000

An innovative cross between a Dickens novel and ‘Crime and Punishment’ (without the moral / psychological quandry of the latter being at the forefront) ‘The White Tiger’ is the black as coal and worryingly humourous story from childhood to success of a man from the Indian “darkness”. How true to life the story depicted is [...]