I know you guys seem to like Slicehost because of it's freedom and superb speed. I'm trying to convince the person who owns the website I develop for that Slicehost would be the best VPS provider to go with. However she seems to want to go for Solar VPS.
What do you guys have in terms of experience with Slicehost, I think a 512mb Slice will do for the site but I've not got a look on bandwidth consumption for the site yet. The sites on a dedicated server but it looks to be too expensive to run for the amount of visitors onsite.
What do you guys have in terms of experience with Slicehost, I think a 512mb Slice will do for the site but I've not got a look on bandwidth consumption for the site yet. The sites on a dedicated server but it looks to be too expensive to run for the amount of visitors onsite.
virtuosso is reason enough to avoid solar vps. go with a provider that uses xen.
i like slicehost.
nny likes linode.
i've been with slicehost for nearly three years, using a 256-slice as my production web server (www.wingedleopard.net). i highly recommend slicehost. they are very professional. i've never experienced any downtime. i think i had to get rebooted one, for some reason.
a 256-slice is sufficient for most websites (that don't use ruby). start with it and upgrade if necessary. slicehost makes upgrading very easy.
i like slicehost.
nny likes linode.
i've been with slicehost for nearly three years, using a 256-slice as my production web server (www.wingedleopard.net). i highly recommend slicehost. they are very professional. i've never experienced any downtime. i think i had to get rebooted one, for some reason.
a 256-slice is sufficient for most websites (that don't use ruby). start with it and upgrade if necessary. slicehost makes upgrading very easy.
I recommended to my boss that 384-slice will be the way to go (they introduced it a few weeks back) but I saw your post about linode and it's possible advantages, however I've not seen it running in production so I'll stick with Slicehost.
I had a look at the bandwidth consumption on the site over the past few months and the peak has only been about 90gb. I'm planning to only install Apache 2, PHP 5 and MySQL (dunno what version) and maybe some more required stuff, keep it as minimal as possible for less RAM consumption eh?
I've checked out the site (and IRC channel) for Slicehost and the amount of support they offer is incredible.
I had a look at the bandwidth consumption on the site over the past few months and the peak has only been about 90gb. I'm planning to only install Apache 2, PHP 5 and MySQL (dunno what version) and maybe some more required stuff, keep it as minimal as possible for less RAM consumption eh?
I've checked out the site (and IRC channel) for Slicehost and the amount of support they offer is incredible.
they don't care if you occasionally go over your bandwidth allocation.
Lucas: Thank you for steering clear of Virtuozzo. Thank you so much.
From wikipedia...
On October 22, 2008, Rackspace acquired Slicehost, a provider of virtual servers [10] and Jungle Disk, a provider of online backup software and services
Seems only now though they've totally absorbed the website with only rackspace hosting plans.
=/ rackspace is growing into a monster.
might try linode out for a couple of months, see if it's any good.
I have linode. I like it. My blog is hosted off it.
€30 eur/month for my own collocated server ... That worked out pretty well so far ...
is this on Slicehost Carpetsmoker?
no, they don't do colocation
No, of course not :) Slicehost offers VPS's ...
We have a VPS at work for our website, one of the things I like about having my own server is that I can run whatever software I choose, and not be stuck with Cent-O-Crap.
We have a VPS at work for our website, one of the things I like about having my own server is that I can run whatever software I choose, and not be stuck with Cent-O-Crap.
to be fair, slicehost offers a handful of distributions. so you're stuck with linux and a modest selection thereof.
linode has a number of os options. I use debian.
linode looks good for the money, clean, simple and your website's fast, or is that just some kind of web optimization?
not stupendously optimized.
I am using wordpress on a custom compiled apache + php.... but I didn't do mach in terms of like configuring any crazy cacheing or a zillion and one extra processes.
Also mysql is just plain old mysql... latest build again... custom compiled... but not heavily messed with.
I really do need to go back and optimize it a bit actually...
I am using wordpress on a custom compiled apache + php.... but I didn't do mach in terms of like configuring any crazy cacheing or a zillion and one extra processes.
Also mysql is just plain old mysql... latest build again... custom compiled... but not heavily messed with.
I really do need to go back and optimize it a bit actually...
On Monday, September 26th at 10:00AM CDT (15:00 UTC), our engineers will be performing a maintenance involving our NS2.SLICEHOST.NET name server. After this maintenance, the IP address of this name server will change to 50.57.86.182. If you have referenced NS2.SLICEHOST.NET directly by IP address, you will need to adjust your records accordingly.
If you have any questions or concerns please get in touch with our support team by visiting SliceChat or via email at support@slicehost.com.
DATE: September 26th, 2011
TIME: 10:00AM CDT (15:00 UTC)
IMPACT: There is no expected customer impact for this maintenance.
silly. granted, i don't know who would do that, but their little contradiction is silly
hey, this site is back online!
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beginning at about feb. 13th, 15:00 CT, we had degraded or no network connectivity.
it lasted for about 24 hours.
this was unacceptable.
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while i couldn't access my server, i looked into a emergency migration to aws ec2 (which is where i want to run my server eventually). but because they don't support multiple IPs on a single instance, aws isn't a viable alternative for me at this point.
fork to IaaS
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beginning at about feb. 13th, 15:00 CT, we had degraded or no network connectivity.
it lasted for about 24 hours.
this was unacceptable.
link 1
link 2
while i couldn't access my server, i looked into a emergency migration to aws ec2 (which is where i want to run my server eventually). but because they don't support multiple IPs on a single instance, aws isn't a viable alternative for me at this point.
fork to IaaS
I was wondering what was up with that...