We're back! Sorry about the extended downtime. I ended up going with FiveBean since their VPS's were more in my price range (promo code UBUNTU gives you 50% off!). http://fivebean.com/account/aff.php?aff=161 Now get to slicin'!
On Jun 10, 11:26 am, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > I will have to point out. > > You can resize slices at anytime you want with no downtime to your server. > > You can clone any slice as many times as you want to any size of disk > you want without taking down the original slice > > You get automated backups from daily, weekly, to monthly that are > exact images of your slice. > > You can create a slice based from a backup image > > I have never had any of my slices go down or the network become > unresponsive other than programming errors on my part > > You get a web console into the system, I have used several web based > consoles before and this is absolutely the best I have used. > > Slicehost support has always gotten back to me with a response within > 5 minutes of sending an email. During the middle of the day or the > middle of the night! > > Slicehost has an API in python so theoretically you can have web2py > control your slice if you so desired. > > There is something to say about the simplicity of the slicehost > management, no fancy graphics making the navigation of the dashboard > complex, it just has what you need and its perfect. > > -- > Thadeus > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Salvor Hardin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > FWIW, I've had 600+ days of uptime running Debian + Apache + qmail at > >www.linode.com. It was rebooted recently to switch from uml to xen. > > I have two nodes there, one Debian (sarge) in Texas and one Ubuntu > > 10.04 in New Jersey. > > > Linode's web-based interface is amazing (I love being able to resize > > my ext3 disks without losing data, or cloning them or creating as many > > disks as I'd like. And being able to have multiple distros available > > to boot. And rebooting as frequently as I'd like.) > > > And get this: you can get remote console access (LISH) even when your > > own SSH server is misconfigured or not running (so you can see your > > Linux startup/boot messages in real time when you reboot your vps even > > while your own ssh server hasn't started yet.) > > > I'm just a very happy customer/fan. Not affiliated with them in any > > way. > > > On Jun 9, 6:01 pm, "mr.freeze" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> VPS provider fail. I'm on the hunt for a new provider. I hope to have > >> it back up tomorrow. > >
