Ah, yeah, not bad. We use a VPS with another company, but I can see the advantage. Plus, I can't get a VPS for $20/mo.
-- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration Brad Bendily wrote: > On 8/29/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote: >> So what's the deal with slicehost? What makes them special? I keep >> hearing about them. > > Well, what I like about it, not that I shopped around or looked for > similar setups, but they > give you a complete system all to yourself. They start you off with a > base OS, either gentoo, debian, Fedora, or one other, suse maybe. And > you have complete access to the box with a root account. They do > nothing on the box itself. it's all yours. Install whatever software > you want, databases, web, etc etc. You also get a static IP for your > slice, so you can point a dns name at it and it never changes. For > $20 a month, to me, you get a lot for a low price. > I'd rather have a box that I can SSH to a root account, rather than > some web interface and FTP to upload/download files. > > Since, i have a 256MB slice, it's only $20/month, one down side is > that I only get a 10GB slice of disk. I might can email them and ask > for more, but I haven't reached that point yet. I'm only at about 50% > used. It just happens to fit the need that I have. > A web server, on the internet, where I can host my personal page and > have a shell account i can access and run scripts on and do testing. > Without getting on anyone else's network. > I've thought about running mail on the slice for my domain so I can > learn/test/break it when I want. I just don't want to tackle mail just > yet. > For me, that's about it really. > > bb > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
