Can anyone recommend a provider in the Twin Cities? On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Jeremy <tclug at lizakowski.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >