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.

On April 12, the CentOS team announced the final release of CentOS 5. This follows roughly 1 month after RedHat released RHEL 5. So far CentOS 5 is available for i386 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) PC hardware platforms although they expect to have future releases available to support PowerPC, IA64 and Sparc.

There are many updated software packages in CentOS 5, including Apache at 2.2 and MySQL at 5.0. I think the most significant part of CentOS 5 is the bundled Xen virtualization technology. We are doing some in-house testing with Xen now.