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Kevin Day, December 27th, 2008

Had some extended downtime due to server troubles that I didn’t have time to fix.  Now I’m running this blog on a Slicehost slice instead of my previous “self-hosted” setup.  Should be much more reliable and headache-free from now on.

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6 Comments:

  • Wow. Looks good.

    I need to find a more affordable VPS (or dedicated host) for REALNEO, as well as a faster home for a load of sites that I’m running on a shared plan with BlueHost.

    I’ve been looking at MediaTemple and Mosso, but I like the low-end price point and easy scalability that Slicehost offers…

    - Jeff Schuler, December 29th, 2008, 1:54 am

  • Do you have a referral code?

    - Jeff Schuler, December 29th, 2008, 2:43 am

  • Slicehost is pretty nice so far. Easy to set up and no problems yet. I was deciding between that and Linode. Sort of arbitrarily chose Slicehost based on comments on Hacker news.

    You can use my gmail address as a referral or this referral link.

    It looks like you figured that out though and my account page tells me I’ll get a referral credit after I have 3 months under my belt. Thanks!

    - Kevin Day, December 29th, 2008, 12:57 pm

  • Heh, yeah, I was pretty anxious to pull the trigger, and since they don’t have any setup fees and minimum durations, I decided to buy their lowest-tier ($20) plan and try it for a month.

    It was easy and slick to set up, but I’m not extremely impressed with the speed so far [on the Drupal site I just moved there,] though there’s probably significant gain possible from tuning the AMP stack.

    I installed Ubuntu (Hardy) on the slice, as it’s the distro I’m most familiar with, but assume I’d see significant performance improvements with another, and will probably reinstall shortly with CentOS…

    - Jeff Schuler, December 29th, 2008, 6:29 pm

  • oof.

    Linode sports more bang for the buck. Might have to take advantage of their 7-day money back deal to check them out…

    - Jeff Schuler, December 30th, 2008, 6:50 pm

  • Let me know how it goes. I don’t have any performance problems with this (zero-traffic) non-cached WP install on Ubuntu Hardy, but I’m assuming Drupal is much more demanding. I am surprised that it doesn’t run well even with zero traffic though.

    - Kevin Day, January 4th, 2009, 12:53 am

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