I've got slices with Octopus vps (Sydney) and their prices are pretty sweet.
http://octopus.com.au/main/vps_plans On 11 May 2011 16:58, Paul Annesley <paul.annes...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 for EC2 micro-instance eye gouging. > > I recently had to build Ruby 1.9, node.js etc on one.. pretty sure it would > never have finished. I ended up killing it, launching an EBS-backed > High-CPU Medium (also 32bit), building everything, and then changing it's > instance type back to Micro for cheap running. > > It's ticking along running statsd / graphite, but anything heavier on the > CPU seems to kill it. > > Also, I moved a personal server from SliceHost to Rackspace Cloud Server > quite a while ago. It's half the price if you're not using much data; about > $10/month from memory. > > Cheers, > Paul > > On Wednesday, 11 May 2011 at 4:36 PM, Daryl Manning wrote: > > Really? Well, as said, YMMV, but I'm really happy with them and they seem > to do fine for all my stuff. I run wordpress on it just fine, so not sure > what you're doing there. Maybe all that slashdotting/fireballing your blog > suffer... =] > > (to be honest, was much snappier moving my stuff to Amazon micro instances > on slicehost). Perhaps check what else you're running on that puppy? I mean, > mine is a pretty standard apache, mysql, postfix, monit install and runs > more than just my regular, blog, so... ). > > ciao ! > Daryl. > > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Mike Bailey <m...@bailey.net.au> wrote: > > Amazon micro instances make me want to gouge my own eyes out with a fork. > > They don't have enough grunt to power the wordpress admin interface. I am > in the process of moving my blogs from EC2 micro's to Linode. > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Daryl Manning <daryl.mann...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Personally, I just spin up Amazon EC2 instances myself or use heroku these > days. Amazon micro instances are roughly $12 a month and are pretty damn > decent for everything I need to do on a small scale. YMMV. More oomph and > storage obviously gets more expensive, but also have my backups on S3 there > as well. > > Though before that I was with Slicehost so bit sad to hear they've been > shut down by Rackspace. :-( > > Daryl. > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Mike Bailey <m...@bailey.net.au> wrote: > > The truth is, most of my slices only use a fraction of the 100GB > Slicehost/Linode offer. > > What can we get for $20/month in Aus these days? > > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:03 PM, James Healy <ji...@deefa.com> wrote: > > On 11 May 2011 14:07, Mike Bailey <m...@bailey.net.au> wrote: > > When Rackspace bought Slicehost in 2008 I suspected it would only be a > > matter of time before they ruined it. In May 2011 Rackspace announced > that > > they will be shutting down Slicehost. It will be sad news for a lot of > > people who have been a part of the “slicehost community” for this was a > > company that customers felt a part of > > Australian VPS prices have been (slowly) dropping to point where I've > been thinking of moving my low data apps that will benefit from the > reduced latency to local shores. > > The Slicehost announcement seems like as good a reason as any. If I'm > going through the pain of IP address changes as I move to a Racskpace > datacentre, then I may as well just move to a Sydney datacentre with > rimu hosting or mammoth. > > James > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. 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