Andy Jarrett: Slicehost VPS

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Slicehost VPS

As you can probably tell from the recent posts I have moved my host over to a linux VPS, at Slicehost.com. Without sounding to tacky it was built by developers, for developers. No overly complicated control panels it just works. On top of that they have some excellent documentation on there site for helping you setup your box with only the basic Linux knowledge.

From the site:

Sick of oversold, underperforming, ancient hosting companies. We took matters into our own hands. We built a hosting company for people who know their stuff. Give us a box, give us bandwidth, give us performance and we get to work. Fast machines, RAID-10 drives, Tier-1 bandwidth and root access. Managed with a customized Xen VPS backend to ensure that your resources are protected and guarante

Check out their questions and community sections. Even if you're not setting up a VPS just yet their articles cover setting up a linux server so well, including SSH users, iptables etc.

If you do sign up with Slicehost.com, please feel free to use my referal link https://manage.slicehost.com/customers/new?referrer=5326d19c676e950dfab1fc8aaa724b6c :)

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Posted By Todd Rafferty @ 4/25/09 1:40 PM

For what it's worth, it should be noted that Slicehost (and Jungledisk.com) was purchased by Rackspace. So, in rough times, slicehost isn't going away anytime soon as they're backed by a stable company.

Posted By Luke @ 4/26/09 2:22 AM

I used to have a Slicehost box. It seemed alright at first but I quickly ran into the limitations of their service. E.g., their 20$ box comes with only 10gig of drive space. That sucks. My apps don't need CPU or memory, I just need lots of disk space. The only thing you can do with Slicehost is move to a bigger box, say their $800 package. But I'm not using the memory and the CPU power. All in all. With Slicehost you end up paying for what you don't use. Great way to make money for them. Not so good for me.

I moved over to Amazon EC2. Whoo. That stuff has really blown me away. Their cheapest linux box comes with 160gig of drive space, 1.7gig of memory and has the equivalent CPU power of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor. Standard you pay 0.10 USD an hour which is about 80 USD a month. But you can reserve your instance by paying 325 USD upfront. By doing that you only pay 0.03 USD an hour. It's end's up being about x2 the amount of Slicehost (annually) and probably more because of bandwidth etc. But the value you get is much higher. I can mount up to 20tb of drives on my instance. If I have 2 instances I can mount up to 40tb etc. Try doing that with Slicehost. Then there is also Amazon Cloudfront & S3. Slicehost is nice. But Amazon is just so much better...

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