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Okay, thanks! So you have experience with Slicehost? Moving up to larger slices is a painless task?
by zimbabwe 17y ago
Okay, thanks! So you have experience with Slicehost? Moving up to larger slices is a painless task?
- radu_floricica 17y agoAbout a half an hour downtime, in my experience. No work needed.
- gojomo 17y agoYes. My one bump up was a tiny, almost vanilla image and took even less time. And, if continuity of service is important, it's possible to launch the larger clone first, then do a near-instantaneous cutover in various ways (esp. if your site can be read-only for a short window, and you can forward hits from the old machine if DNS takes a while to update).
- patio11 17y agoIt was a matter of minutes for me both times I went from a 256 to 512 slice.
- gtani 17y agoSlicehost makes everything as painless as could be asked for. I had a DNS problem on a new slice yesterday, their folks noticed it within 3 minutes. My understanding is that Xen is pretty tricky admin, but you can do your own ubuntu or CentOS VM under vmware ,give it x Meg RAM, throw ab or jmeter or trample at your app, see what happens.