I've had good experiences with Slicehost. Their support department is flexible and responsive. Their tutorials online are awesome (useful even if you are setting up your own ubuntu server elsewhere). Console is available through the web and works well. I haven't seen any real changes yet after the buyout. Although, their management console was down last week (from my pc at least) for several hours, but none of our servers (nor our clients) were affected, and I haven't seen that before nor since. I plan to stick with them for small projects. Anything that needs clustering I'll probably do on EC2. You can do it on slicehost, but EC2 seems to have more powerful tools in this area. Jeremy On Thursday 13 November 2008 2:29:10 pm Thomas Lunde wrote: > I'm considering SliceHost. Has anyone had good/bad personal > experience with them? Unexpected outages? Hard to get console? > Unexpected bills? Above-and-beyond service? > > Comments that are post-merger are especially appreciated. > > Thanks > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Jeremy <tclug at lizakowski.com> wrote: > > Slichost starts at $20/mo, and you get root and your choice of distro, as > > well as access to the console. > > > > On Thursday 13 November 2008 9:44:57 am Kevin Lombardo wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> > > > > wrote: > >> > I'm not sure what kinds of services are available for what I want. I > >> > think the best thing for me would be to have a place that allowed me > >> > to house a server and charged me for bandwidth. I would connect by > >> > ssh to do system administration. The server would do email, web, and > >> > maybe other stuff too. It wouldn't be a bandwidth hog because. > >> > > >> > Is what I need called a "colo" (colocation) center? Whether it is > >> > called that or not, who should I go to in the twin cities for this > >> > kind of service? > >> > > >> > Mike > >> > >> A cheap non-local option is a dedicated server from Core Networks > >> (http://corenetworks.net/dedicated/). I've had good luck with the > >> Starter package, and the IP KVM was very useful when I screwed up my > >> SSH server ;) > >> > >> These are bare servers when you get them, you can install any prebuilt > >> image Core Networks has or you can use the IP KVM to install your own > >> OS. > >> > >> Of course the servers are a little undersized and I don't know about > >> fault tolerance, but this was a perfect option for me. Co-location > >> seems to be at least $100/month and you have to provide your own > >> hardware. > >> > >> Kevin > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list