[Tfug] The Semiannual Colocation/hosting service question

[keith smith]

Do they give you a control panel or is it all shell?



Matt Jacob <m at mattjacob.com> wrote: Tom Rini wrote:
> Who do you use (in town)?

Nobody in town other than myself, so that probably won't help you much. 
However, I have a couple VPS accounts with Slicehost 
 and I couldn't be happier. (Well, I *could* 
be happier if their service was free, but that's a bit unrealistic.)

If you're not familiar with VPSes, Slicehost is a VPS done right. They 
use Xen virtualization and provide fixed resource limits, mostly based 
on the plan you choose, which in turn is based on the amount of RAM your 
VPS will have. For $20 a month, you get 256 MB of RAM, 10 GB of disk, 
and 100 GB of bandwidth, along with your choice of distro (I'm running 
Debian 4.0 on mine, of course) and root access.

> Do you like them?

I like them a lot, obviously. I use my own box for some stuff that's not 
mission critical (to me, anyway), but that gets old fast. I have to make 
sure my UPS is working, replace HDs when they die (and they always die), 
and generally do all the low-level care and feeding. If a drive dies at 
Slicehost, that's their problem, not mine. They've got redundant tier-1 
networks, and we've got a single TWT line. And on and on.

> Do you get a good rate?

I consider $20 a month to be a good rate. It's $38 for the 512 MB RAM 
plan and $70 for the 1 GB plan, and then the price scales 
proportionately to the doubling of the RAM up to 4 GB. DNS hosting is 
included for all plans.

> Anything to watch out for?

You have to prepay for the first 3 months, but then you go 
month-to-month. Look around online for yourself, though (Web Hosting 
Talk forums and other places). I don't think I found a bad review of 
Slicehost in all my searching, and I researched them quite extensively 
before signing up.

Matt

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