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We have been using Slicehost's 256MB slice for a little over two months now for a PHP site and haven't had any issues; uptime has been excellent and support is

by rob 19y ago

We have been using Slicehost's 256MB slice for a little over two months now for a PHP site and haven't had any issues; uptime has been excellent and support is great. The fact that they are one of the few providers to offer Arch Linux is another plus, too. Another place I personally purchased a VPS from to test out is Linode (http://linode.com http://linode.com). I've only had it for a week so far, but so far no problems. If you're going to run a Rails app, you might want to look at them as for $20 they provide 360MB of RAM instead of 256 :) Their community seems on par with Slicehost. Their Xen is in beta testing, though, so for now their VPS' run UML.

marketer 19y ago
I tried both linode and slicehost, and I far prefer slicehost. Their service is absolutely amazing, but more importantly they have hardware virtualization, instead of linode which only offers UML
- rob 19y ago
  Linode actually has Xen, but it's been in beta for a while. I haven't tried it yet, so I can't compare, but once you register for it in the CP it will migrate your data/IP to the Xen platform without any changes on your end.
- cstejerean 19y ago
  I was considering between linode and slicehost. Linode signup process was a big hassle compared to slicehost so I picked slicehost. I've been very satisfied to date (2x 256 and 1x 512 slice)
  - cstejerean 19y ago
    Here is a post I wrote a while ago about the reasons why I picked Slicehost over Linode http://blog.offbytwo.com/2008/01/05/moving-to-slicehost/ http://blog.offbytwo.com/2008/01/05/moving-to-slicehost/
indrax 19y ago
I've had a linode for a couple of years. I love it. I'm very low load, so I'm not sure how my account would hold up with any real traffic. One thing I love about linode is that you get upgrades almost seamlessly. I rarely ever need to log into the main page, so when I do I end up find out out that my ram and available storage has increased. Since I started I think my storage has gone from 2g to 10g, and memory from I think 64m to 360m. (you have to grow your partition or create a partition to use the extra space, which is a small amount of downtime. It looks like using the extra memory requires a reboot, as I still only have 251864 kB, which suggests the 360m upgrade was within the last 171 days.) I used a variety of virtual hosts before linode, with mixed results. I haven't regretted going with linode for one moment. Period.

by rob 19y ago

marketer 19y ago

I tried both linode and slicehost, and I far prefer slicehost. Their service is absolutely amazing, but more importantly they have hardware virtualization, instead of linode which only offers UML

rob 19y ago
Linode actually has Xen, but it's been in beta for a while. I haven't tried it yet, so I can't compare, but once you register for it in the CP it will migrate your data/IP to the Xen platform without any changes on your end.
cstejerean 19y ago
I was considering between linode and slicehost. Linode signup process was a big hassle compared to slicehost so I picked slicehost. I've been very satisfied to date (2x 256 and 1x 512 slice)
- cstejerean 19y ago
  Here is a post I wrote a while ago about the reasons why I picked Slicehost over Linode http://blog.offbytwo.com/2008/01/05/moving-to-slicehost/ http://blog.offbytwo.com/2008/01/05/moving-to-slicehost/

indrax 19y ago

I've had a linode for a couple of years. I love it. I'm very low load, so I'm not sure how my account would hold up with any real traffic. One thing I love about linode is that you get upgrades almost seamlessly. I rarely ever need to log into the main page, so when I do I end up find out out that my ram and available storage has increased. Since I started I think my storage has gone from 2g to 10g, and memory from I think 64m to 360m. (you have to grow your partition or create a partition to use the extra space, which is a small amount of downtime. It looks like using the extra memory requires a reboot, as I still only have 251864 kB, which suggests the 360m upgrade was within the last 171 days.) I used a variety of virtual hosts before linode, with mixed results. I haven't regretted going with linode for one moment. Period.