Comments on: SliceHost 12 Months Mini-Review

By: Spankarou

Spankarou — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:02:29 +0000

I just have no faith in vps’s at all.

I had many, not of the virtual memory is physical, you run things that supose to take 10mb memory at most and it eats 70% of your memory.

Besides, why getting a piece of the cake when you can get the whole cake for the same price??? is it the location??? cause if it’s not, look what you can get for 130$ a month.

Dedicated server with
Intel® Core™ i7-975 Quad-Core incl. Hyper-Threading-Technology
12 GB DDR3 RAM
3 x 1500 GB SATA-II HDD (Software-RAID 5)
NIC 1 GBit OnBoard
back up 100 GB
unlimited traffic

basic features:
Full root access
4 Dedicated IP
Administrations software Webmin (available for LAMP)
24h Servermonitoring with email notification
24h Resetservice via Webinterface
Rescue System
VNC Installation
Image Installer
Traffic Statistics
Reverse DNS Administration
Domain Registration Robot

Free Phone Support
Free Email-Support
Data Center 24/7 Stand-by-Service

92 GBit Bandwidth
Redundant Network
Juniper Backbone-Technology
100 % switched network; np collision domains
100 MBit Fast-Ethernet-Uplink to Switch
High Speed Access to all Internet-Uplinks
24/7 Monitoring
Network Availabiliy min. 99%

amortizing the setup fee for a year you will be paying 145$ a month.

Curious???

By: scotty

scotty — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:43:20 +0000

Pretty much so. Although I have to admit that VPS industry has grown a lot over the last 2 years and SliceHost indeed has a lot more competitions around today. As their price has not moved for the last 2 years, I think you probably can get a better deal elsewhere with similar level of service.

By: Yang

Yang — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:46:45 +0000

I'm on the brink of signing up with them now and just read this awesome reviews of yours almost 2 years ago.

My only question is: Does what you said back in 2007 still hold true today? in 2009?

Thanks!

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:28:58 +0000

Agree completely: Slicehost rocks. I signed up a few months ago because we were moving house, and I couldn't give my "clients" (not as professionally slick as it sounds) continuity from my home-based server.

Although we've been in the new house for a couple of months now, and there's nothing to stop me going me back to home-hosting, the stability, performance (despite US hosting and UK sites), ease of use etc, have taken away any motivation I might have to change.

The value for money is good too - barely more than the electricity I'd use home-hosting, and I don't use my home bandwidth.

I do notice significantly higher memory usage due to the 64-bittiness of the slice hardware - a 256slice isn't quite as versatile as the name suggests.

By: scotty

scotty — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:20:07 +0000

Yes I have (after running two identical setup, one in x86_64 and one in i686).

By: Yevgeny Smirnov

Yevgeny Smirnov — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:48:59 +0000

Scott, didn't you notice that on a 64 bit platform memory consumption is uncomfortably higher than in a 32 bit environment? (In extreme conditions you'll have to take two 64 bit slices for every 32 bit slice.)

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:52:44 +0000

Hey James, if you checked your position in the queue lately you’ll see that they’re rolling out the new backend and the your place should go down a lot quicker. Hang in there.

By: James Ashley

James Ashley — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:54:37 +0000

Slicehost looks cool. I don't understand all the people who are willing to pay for a year's hosting in advance, to jump the queue. Personally, I want to try them out before I make that kind of commitment.

My personal position in the queue? 8 weeks. When did I sign up for that spot? July 25.

I understand their position, and what they're doing. But this is ridiculous.

By: Jerry Davis

Jerry Davis — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:09:44 +0000

Excellent review. I will have to check them out.

By: owner of a hong kong hosting comany

owner of a hong kong hosting comany — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:38:26 +0000

never use of this host before but look forward to try. well I am sort of a person who likes to try new things and make contribution to the hosting industries. Actually I’m looking forward to write review and stories on other hosting companies and hopefully find the best solutions for my readers