A year after initially intended, I’ve moved to TechMight hosting and cancelled my hosting arrangement with MidPhase. I tried to do this move a year ago, but TechMight wasn’t extremely well set up at that point.

The main reasons for the switch are:

• TechMight is run by my old online friend.
• I’ve been paying for quite a long time now for part of a TechMight-run server for Tremulous.
• TechMight is affiliated with my good friends at The Mercenaries Guild (mercenariesguild.net)
• I’m not paying anything extra to have web hosting there while my requirements are low, so I’m in effect saving ~100$/year by not having extra external hosting.
• I know the “staff” so I get good service + ssh + whatever else.
• My requirements aren’t praticularly giant in a lot of areas, so I don’t need the high amount of bandwidth/space that I was being given at MidPhase, but I do like having SSH access and the ability to run some cool Django / RoR code on it eventually.
• It was extremely easy to switch, because MidPhase and TechMight both have CPanel. CPanel supports doing full backup/restore, so a TechMight techie just transfered the whole thing for me in about 15 minutes. Then I just had to change the DNS and victory was mine.

Anyway, so for me, TechMight made a lot of sense. More than a for a lot of people, probably. However, as a plug for my group/friends, TechMight at the moment is a fairly small not-yet-officially-running operation offering high quality hosting to those that know about it. Because the team is small with few customers, the support is high quality and willing to accomodate. If you’re looking for some off-beat probably cheaper than normal, high quality hosting supported by TechMight and The Mercenaries Guild (we have some smart people there), then I do recommend this.

Oh, also. To my surprise, TechMight e-mailed me to say that some of my software (web software) is outdated (I guess it’s an automated message) . MidPhase never did that — anyway, so I guess I’ll be making a stab at upgrading things later and hope it all goes smoothly!