Comments on: SliceHost – Initial Impression Review

By: Sohbet chat

Sohbet chat — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:43:16 +0000

You’d probably want to disable root login via ssh and other fun stuff like that too though. Those things are covered in the Slicehost articles.

By: medyum

medyum — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:43:47 +0000

Scott,

Your guidance has moved me significantly closer to having a real Rails testbed and saving some cash in the process. I plan to start my slice project this weekend. Thanks.

By: braulio_

braulio_ — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:23:45 +0000

From "I'll need to learn to handle a VPS" to "seems like a no-brainer" is a stretch, no? ;-)

I'd be afraid to try it on a production site! MAYBE it would be wise to go production after a lot of experimentation with slicehost first. GOOD LUCK!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:35:19 +0000

I’ve never used Slicehost but was looking into it. Unfortunately this is pretty much what happens with all hosting services. This is one of the reasons I would never use shared hosting except for small sights, and I NEVER use anything that advertises unlimited usage for anything. There is no such thing as unlimited and I’d rather know my limits and be able to abide by them and be warned if I need to upgrade than be surprised one day when they “randomly decide” that I surpassed reasonable usage limits and suspended my account. But the problem of not having access to your data is a real one and is why if you’re hosting you need to make sure you keep regular local backups or risk losing it for unknown reasons.

By: matiu

matiu — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:24:58 +0000

You can get a cPanel with a Slice, just get a centos Slice, then ask one of these two companies to install a cPanel on there for you, the VPS license is $15 a month last time I checked.

http://www.cpanel.net/

http://www.instantcpanellicense.com/

You’d probably want to disable root login via ssh and other fun stuff like that too though. Those things are covered in the Slicehost articles.

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:28:55 +0000

I signed up for slicehost vps and then changed my mind – deciding i wanted to go the cpanel route. I requested a refund and was promply responded to and fairly interacted with.

Another vote for slicehost here. I’ll be back.

http://nuzu.net

By: Scoot

Scoot — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:55:21 +0000

I'm using a guide that installed Ubuntu, FastCGI, Mongrel and MySQL (There was another guide that used Apache as a web server, but that was suggested for the more “advanced” developer.). The Mongrel-based install worked without a hitch and I was able to get Rails up and running with one shot. Do you know if Drupal will work with this configuration, or do I need to install Apache for Drupal? I searched for “mongrel” on Drupal.org but received

By: David

David — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:41:22 +0000

The downside of slicehost is that their T&Cs would leave you high and dry for any reason, at any time, with zero notice. Why are they afraid to assure their customers that they will be treated fairly?

It seems to me, their “taking” of your data and code hosted on their server is not even legal.

Here’s the clause from: http://www.slicehost.com/tos

Slicehost may cancel or suspend your access to Slicehost services at any time and for any reason without notice. Upon cancellation or suspension, your right to use the service will stop immediately. You may not have access to data that you stored on the service after we suspend or terminate the service.

By: scotty

scotty — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:00:46 +0000

Serious database applications are very disk IO hungry and I do not think VPS with shared disks are suitable. Then again that depends on how "serious" it is and how much you can optimise around it.

By: Brandon Thomson

Brandon Thomson — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:37:48 +0000

Sounds like slicehost is a no-go for serious database applications due to the storage layer limitations… thanks for the comments, those are really helpful.