Ryan Troy » blog http://moxiefoxtrot.com ...a random blog about life and technology Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:45:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hosting with slicehost http://moxiefoxtrot.com/2008/11/30/hosting-with-slicehost/ http://moxiefoxtrot.com/2008/11/30/hosting-with-slicehost/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:19:25 +0000 Ryan http://moxiefoxtrot.com/?p=188 I decided to move my blog and a couple other websites I maintain to an Ubuntu 8.10 based VPS/slice at slicehost.net. For various reasons the shared hosting provider I was using wasn’t fitting my needs, specifically there was downtime and performance issues.

I choose to start with slicehost’s “256 slice” which gave me 256BM ram, 10GB storage and 100GB of monthly transfer. I opted to install Ubuntu 8.10, although there are other Linux flavors available. The install took about 5 minutes and Slicehost’s control panel allows me to rebuild my slice anytime, view stats, login to a console and much more.

Since I choose to start with the smaller 256 slice I needed to make sure I wasn’t going to max out my resources since I need to have specific applications installed to maintain my blog. I decided to go with nginx as a replacement for apache2, mysql5, php5 and postfix to handle sending mail.

It’s only been a couple days since I made the switch and so far slicehost is really working out for me.

Edit: I stumbled on Slicehost when researching Linux HA for work. Slicehost has a nice write up on using HA with multiple slices. :)

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