Last week we officially launched our new Virtual Private Server plans. Virtual Private Servers have been gaining a lot of traction in the hosting industry recently, although the technology has been available in several different forms and fashions for years. We spent trying out different VPS technologies and finally settled on using Virtuozzo from SWsoft for powering our VPS.

If anyone can figure out the best way to indicate the plural form of “VPS” I would love to hear it! None of these exactly sound right:

• VPSes
• VPSs
• VPS’s
• NxVPS

We are also running a promotion through the end of June offering 30% off of any new signups - send me an email (mark@tqhosting.com) for more info.

New version 2.2 of popular open-source blog software Wordpress was just announced. Wordpress is the blog app of choice here. Wordpress is freely available, open source, and written in php with a mysql database. Wordpress.com also offers a hosted blog application, in the spirit of the Blogger.com model.

I think the coolest feature in the new version is a Blogger.com import wizard, allowing for a quick transition to Wordpress from Blogger. Blogger is a good service, but doesn’t let webmasters tweak things under the hood like we can, running Wordpress on our own servers.

The short list of what’s new:

Blogger.com importer
Protection from plugins and template edits that will break the site - I’d like to see how well this works!
speed improvements
goodies for developers - better documentation
improvements in API will allow other web tools and applications to update your Wordpress blog for you