Archive for June, 2010

htop & nmon

By Mark Davidson on June 26th, 2010

Whenever I run a screen session I always used to have top running in screen 0 by default.
This was till recently when a friend recommended `htop` to me which is a great enhancement on top and I now use this by default.
Just the other day I found another alternative to using `top` which is `nmon` although its not as customisable as `htop` it still has some good features, so I thought I would do a quick post on both and also share my configs which I think work well.

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VPS.net 1 Year Review

By Mark Davidson on June 20th, 2010

This month my VPS.net account reached the grand age of 1-year-old. For this special occasion I thought I would do another review of VPS.net and recount some of my experiences from the last 12 months.

In this review I will go over the good and bad aspects of VPS.net that I have experienced. Also I will cover what is coming in the future and what I would like to see in the future as well. Finally I will give a bit of a summary of my thoughts after a year.

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