i'm all moved in! hurrah! ssh and subversion are all set up and running beautifully, and (obviously) this old blog has been migrated. currently trying to decide whether i should develop on my laptop (which would really require a php/apache installation for both windows and linux) or just get down and dirty with vi. i used xored trustudio back in the day, which is an awesome ide for php (i have absolutely no idea why it gets rotten reviews, people must be stupid), but combined with eclipse the download is over 100mb. not a big deal for an eight-megabit pipe, but really: is it worth it? ideally, i'd have apache, php, and eclipse with the trustudio and simpletest plugins, but to set that up in both operating systems would be a serious headache. ok, jeez, not a headache per se, just a very long, long exercise in tedium.
on the other hand, coding a big (big for me, lemme alone) application in vi could be a really good experience. i could get svn set up on both sides (it's already up in windows) in case i needed to do offline coding for some reason, and live the rest of the time in putty.
hm. feel free to offer suggestions.
o, and i should mention my only disappointment so far: i can't modify config directives for php5, because it's running over cgi (thus cutting out .htaccess) and it's not phpsuexec-ed. so my inner anti-magic_quotes-nazi will be prepending an ini_set()/kill-the-magic file to everything. naturally, my mind has been casting back to the other host i considered, which runs php5 exclusively as an apache module, and which i ultimately decided against because they have no track record...