Why Slicehost?

/me reads...

* Choice of Linux distro.

Crap.

Oh yeah, this is a Linux list.

:)

But, seriously, all seriousness aside, what were your pluses and  
minuses for Slicehost?

Thanks,

Eric


On Sep 21, 2008, at 11:14 PM, Jordan Peacock wrote:

> Thank you all for the feedback. I've talked to/played with a few  
> potentials and am going to do Slicehost for the largest site....and  
> the rest of them once I figure out how to neatly consolidate things.
>
> Thanks to all, and to all a good night.
>
> ======================
> Jordan Peacock
> hewhocutsdown at gmail.com
> hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Eric F Crist <ecrist at secure-computing.net 
> > wrote:
> > Any recommendations?
> >
> > It's for an existing site that exceeds the CPU/RAM usage of some  
> of the
> > lower-priced basic offerings from AN Hosting or GoDaddy (the  
> shared virtual
> > servers). Not a heavy hard drive or bandwidth site. Currently paying
> > $150/quarter, looking to lower that as much as possible, as this  
> is for a
> > non-profit organization that is on half of a shoe-string budget as  
> it is.
> >
> > Does it make sense to upgrade my internet connection and host it  
> myself, or
> > go after a hosting company? Ideally I would like to administrate  
> the server
> > as well and have it run Ubuntu or Debian, but I'm not hellbent on  
> that.
>
> Sorry I'm coming into this late.  If you're not experiencing huge  
> bandwidth requirements from any of the sites you're hosting, I'd  
> recommend DSL and hosting things at your own home, provided you have  
> space.  As you suggest this above, I'm guessing this isn't a problem.
>
> For many, many, years, I've hosted my things on a server in my own  
> basement.  I've got DSL from ipHouse (iphouse.net), and very  
> reliable power in my neighborhood.  Comcast is even allowing  
> webhosting on their connections now, provided you go with the  
> business-level service.  With that, you can get blocks of IPs, the  
> same as has been the case with DSL for years.  Their upload speed  
> ranges from 1 to 2 Mbps, whereas DSL caps out at ~800Kbps.  Qwest is  
> offering a new 20Mbps fibre option, but I'm not sure about their  
> terms on personal web hosting.
>
> If that doesn't work for you, I know of at least one person who uses  
> Colo Pronto (www.colopronto.com) without too much issue.  You ship  
> down your own 1u server, pay $25/mo and you get a 100Mb connection  
> to the world (shared, of course).  They make their money on service,  
> however.  Reboots, eyes and hands, etc.  I'd caution  you on them  
> only in regards to outgoing spam.  UCEPROTECT has them listed at  
> various levels on a fairly regular basis, a few times at level 3  
> (the entire AS was blacklisted).
>
> Now, when you run you servers at home, there is going to be the  
> occasional downtime.  No, or little, battery backup; no connection  
> redundancy; you're out of town on vacation and cannot reboot that  
> firewall you *had* to reconfigure from the beach.  Overall, I find  
> it's nice to have control of things.
>
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> Eric Crist
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