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You can use a provider like Hurricane Electric who offer free ip6 Tunnels. Follow the instructions on the site to set up a tunnel with your router/computer and it will tunnel ip6 over ip4, and allow you to use ip6 addresses on your local lan, and access ip6 sites on the web. I use a routerboard...

The way I do this is I installed webmin on my VPS and then used that to install and configure SQUID Proxy. You can then use your normal proxy settings and point at the VPS. You will need a VPS provider that doesn't have a limited TCP receive buffer though. Another way that doesn't involve...

I have just moved away from 1&1, their domain system is horrible, and doesn't support wildcards. I have previously used go daddy, one.com and uk2, but on a recommendation from some blog I tried NameCheap and can't recommend them more. Their DNS system is easy to use and its very easy to add SSL...

I can't recommend Webmin enough! http://www.webmin.com Its a lightweight web interface for linux servers. It gives you a web gui for installing a number of modules, including failtoban (which is great if you accidentally lock yourself out by using it!) and shows various system stats.

I transfered 4 domains out from GoDaddy to Namecheap last year, 3 went across within the hour, but my one .co.uk domain failed because GoDaddy don't have an automated process for changing IPS tags. Their first line support didn't know what an IPS tag was until I phoned up, but after I explained...

The company I work for has previously had very bad experiences with 1and1. I have a server with them at the moment which I pay £11 for per month and scores 800 on UnixBench http://serverbear.com/benchmarks/vps. Its 1v core 1 GB RAM.  They stack their machines so high (lots of VMs per physical...