The existing rothwell.us hosting situation is getting to be slower and slower:

$ ping www.rothwell.us
PING www.rothwell.us (72.236.213.43): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 72.236.213.43: icmp_seq=0 ttl=42 time=1515.968 ms
64 bytes from 72.236.213.43: icmp_seq=1 ttl=42 time=1455.347 ms
64 bytes from 72.236.213.43: icmp_seq=2 ttl=42 time=1207.031 ms
64 bytes from 72.236.213.43: icmp_seq=3 ttl=42 time=1288.661 ms

I just signed up for a new dedicated server at ServerPronto, which is also the new home of zappe.us. In fact, it was Zappe who referred me there.

$ ping www.zappe.us
PING www.zappe.us (64.251.25.46): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 64.251.25.46: icmp_seq=0 ttl=42 time=65.153 ms
64 bytes from 64.251.25.46: icmp_seq=1 ttl=42 time=64.955 ms
64 bytes from 64.251.25.46: icmp_seq=2 ttl=42 time=47.836 ms
64 bytes from 64.251.25.46: icmp_seq=3 ttl=42 time=52.610 ms

... performance is a little better at ServerPronto, it seems. They indicate that each server is connected via 100MBit ethernet to their redundant peered internet connections. That's certainly a step up from a 10mbit hub and two pigeons.