I've only been at Slicehost for a couple months and I haven't had any issues yet. The server uptime, billing, and support have been great. Upgrading a slice from 512MB to 1GB worked flawlessly and relatively quickly. Backup snapshots of the slice work like a champ. The admin system isn't bad. It's clean and easy to use. The Ajax terminal is slick. You can use Slicehost to manage your DNS, which I do, but it is a little cumbersome at first. They also have a bunch of good articles on installing various web servers and such. The Slices are 64-bit and the server on my slice has 4 CPUs/cores of which I am guaranteed one of them, but can use more CPU if the other slices aren't busy. In the end, I have had a really great experience so far. I pay $87/month for a 1GB slice, backups, and a second IP address. I figure that isn't that bad since I figure it was costing me about that much when I was hosting stuff out of my house and had to deal with business class internet, power consumption, and hardware failures. -Chris Eric F Crist wrote: > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080922/a8a9f5a7/attachment.htm