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Fixed: Slicehost Alternatives #computers #dev #it

Slicehost Alternatives

What are some good alternatives to the virtual private server company sliceshost? I would like a few alternates providers.

Answer [by Dario Solera]: Slicehost Alternatives

There are many, SolarVPS is very good for me.

Answer [by Andrew Williams]: Slicehost Alternatives

Have a look at OVH, they offer the RPS service which is essentially a diskless system connected to a…

How to: Slicehost vs Linode #it #dev #answer

Slicehost vs Linode

Slicehost.com vs Linode.com

Which one do you recommend?

Are there any major differences between these two?

What are your personal experience?

Answer [by user5336]: Slicehost vs Linode

I’ve only used Linode and have been very happy with them; no complaints at all. I’ve been a heavy Rackspace user in the past, and they own Slicehost. Their tech support was generally decent,…

Answer: Slicehost vs Linode #programming #solution #development

Slicehost vs Linode

Slicehost.com vs Linode.com

Which one do you recommend?

Are there any major differences between these two?

What are your personal experience?

Answer [by user5336]: Slicehost vs Linode

I’ve only used Linode and have been very happy with them; no complaints at all. I’ve been a heavy Rackspace user in the past, and they own Slicehost. Their tech support was generally decent,…

THE SLICEHOST STORY

Slicehost—a scrappy web company bootstrapped with $20,000—cashed out for big bucks in 2008. How did they do it? More importantly, was it worth it?

After finding out that my free Joyent Facebook accelerator was going to expire in a week, i started acting fast.. I had to move Halo 3 Players from Joyent to my SliceHost slice (that also hosts this blog). Being a man strapped for cash, I really couldn’t afford the ‘upgrade’ offer that Joyent was offering. For a 512MB server, they wanted me to pay a $75 setup fee (to setup a server I’ve been using for a year now?) and then $75 a month on top of that. They had annual deals and even a ‘buy 1 year and get a 2nd for free’ deal for christmas, but again.. I’m broke. So I’m sticking with SliceHost and I think I’ll stick with them for all of my ‘cheap’ hosting needs. I’ve had a 512MB Slice on SliceHost for almost 2 years (?) now and it works fantastically.. And it’s about half as much as Joyent’s! Anyone who needs affordable hosting that’s awesome, check out SliceHost!

So the server move went well. Better than I thought it would. I actually rebuilt my Slice from scratch just so I could make sure it was clean and ready to serve up Halo 3 Players. It only took me most of a night to get all my web stuff back up and running and now I can just spend some spare time tweaking things.

What else is new? I’ve diving in, head first, into iPhone development. I’ve never really done anything with C, C++, Objective-C, Cocoa.. or anything really besides Ruby. So I’ve been cramming my brain with lots of new information and I think I’m doing quite well. I’d love to start developing games but I’m having a hard time finding a good ‘getting started’ book. I really need something that teaches the basic concepts behind efficient game programming, so if anyone knows of a good place for me to start, leave a comment or something. That would be great!

I’ve been busy for the last 4 days learning myself some system administration. I purchased a ‘slice’ from SliceHost and have to say that I’m very pleased with it. They’re prices are fantastic and you have basically no restrictions as to what you can do with your server (keep it legal, is all they say on their site). Obviously, your limited by the amount of memory that happens to come in the slice that you purchase and the disk space and the bandwidth, but those are all understandable limits. Other than that, I have root access to my ‘own’ server that I can setup and customize just the way I like it. Very recommended for anyone looking to get their feet wet with system setup.

So this will be my new home. I’ll be updating on projects I’m working on, random thoughts, and whatever else I can think of. Mostly, it will probably be about Ruby on Rails and web development. I’m also planning (in the next few days) on writing a few articles detailing the steps I took to set up various aspects of my new slice so people who are new to setting up their own server can hopefully learn something. In addition to those tutorials, I will be be releasing 2 of my plugins (has_many_friends and open_id_authentication_mock if you wish to help test them a little bit) for Rails that I’ve written to use in my own project. So, I’ll be quite busy and I hope to keep this place updated. I hope I find some time to do some customizations to this theme too.