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I've got a vps at slicehost and they've been great - would definately recommend them. For my next project im thinking of going Joyent, as their storage seems mo

by carpo 19y ago

I've got a vps at slicehost and they've been great - would definately recommend them. For my next project im thinking of going Joyent, as their storage seems more scalable. I was thinking of using Amazon S3 with Slicehost, but am worried about the speed. The bandwidth costs seem pretty expensive too.

icey 19y ago
Do some research in regards to Joyent's stability before you make any moves to them.
icky 19y ago
> For my next project im thinking of going Joyent, as their storage seems more scalable. One of my past clients used them (around when they merged with TextDrive). Their Solaris setup is a PITA if you're used to Linux or *BSD. If you set up a 25-cent swear jar, you'll probably be able to pay your hosting fees in quarters! The other thing to realize is that Joyent slices scale vertically: a larger slice is just a larger piece of a very large Solaris box, and there's a limit to how big they can get. (Don't know if it's still true, but at the time, they also had no way of directly upgrading a slice "in-place"). You'd be better off figuring out how to scale your storage (preferably with redundancy) across multiple computers. Look into MogileFS or Hadoop's DFS.