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Interesting, DHH runs his blog on SliceHost.
by pius 19y ago
Interesting, DHH runs his blog on SliceHost.
- Readmore 19y agoI have a couple sites on Slicehost and I love it. The only thing I miss from shared hosting sites is the easy to use management console for setting up email and such. Other than that Slicehost is the way to go.
- scw 19y agoA pet feature I wish they had was exposing a way to download the actual Xen image your site is hosted within. Then you could be developing your production server sans internet, and rsync the resulting image.
- Zak 19y agoI generally hate those consoles, as they make things work in unexpected ways. Recently, I spent a while tracking down a bug on a managed VPS with Plesk installed where mail sent by scripts on the server to the same domain (let's call it example.com) were going to local delivery at example.com instead of the MX entry of exchange.example.com (a separate server). Many times, I want the email system to share its login database with some web app anyway.
- spiralhead 19y agoWhat I would really love to see is affordable hosting like this but with the ability to do stuff like run a custom web server. I know this thread isn't really about hosting but has anyone seen something like this or is it even technically possible without going fully dedicated?
- scw 19y agoRead more on Slicehost -- its exactly that; you have full access to a virtualized machine, and can do pretty much anything.
- davidw 19y agoDoes slicehost have that Amazon crap where on any given day, you might open the box and find that the cat is dead, or do you get your instance back even if something happens to it?
- nickb 19y agoNo. Disk associated with your slice has persistent disk space. You also get a static IP.
- mechanical_fish 19y ago+1, hilarious cat metaphor And, yes, the disk space and the IP, and apparently the percentage of CPU that you get, are all static. Very nice service, although I haven't automated my downtime monitoring so I can't speak to that.