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. > > --- > Eric Crist > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list --- Eric Crist