Migration to a VPS and SSL

So, its been a while since I posted but I’ve certainly still been working on things. Something quick and worth writing about is that half of this site is now hosted on a 2HOST virtual private server. I found a deal through Low End Box for an unmanaged VPS with 5 GB of storage, 128 MB RAM and 256 MB of swap space. The most interesting part of the deal is a guaranteed 10TB of bandwidth per month! The best part is the whole deal costs around $5 a month.

I went ahead, bought a month of service, and setup a webserver. I’m using lighttpd in order to keep memory usage down since I’d like to run quite a few things later on. I then got an SSL cert from StartSSL. Its free and StartCom Ltd’s CA cert is shipped with major browsers so authentication is automatic. (unless you’re like… ) Currently there’s only one page up but check it out here.

https://secure.derekkozel.com/aboutme.php

I’ll be migrating everything over to this VPS and using HTTPS for everything. I’m considering including Strict Transport Security as a default for all HTTP headers. I’ve begun using EFF’s HTTPS Everywhere extension for Firefox and would like to do what I can do encourage SSL’s spread.
Another project I have my eye on for this weekend is Monkeysphere. I’ll post about that if I get around to trying it out. Until then I am rather fond of the Perspectives addon for firefox. This ofcourse has nothing to do with the fact it is developed at CMU.