Joe Blog's » slicehost http://blog.joeb454.com A Day In The Life Of Your Average Joe Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:04:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Pt. 2 http://blog.joeb454.com/2008/11/ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex-pt-2/ http://blog.joeb454.com/2008/11/ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex-pt-2/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:38:24 +0000 Joe http://joeb454.wordpress.com/?p=197 So I've had 8.10 installed for just under a week now, and so far, all is well :)

I have actually been making use of a tabbed Nautilus (yay!) which I didn't think I would. I've also been using my VPS to torrent the desktop and alternate versions of Intrepid (32 bit versions). Stats of that at the time of writing are:

Desktop - Uploaded: 8126 MB
Alternate - Uploaded: 1680 MB

As you may have guessed - the alternate iso has only been seeding for a day or so. But this is what VPS's are for ;) I'll continue seeding until Sunday night (GMT).

As for what I think of Intrepid on my laptop...well...I love it (as always). The only downside to it that I can complain about is the fact that unless I play my audio at near inaudible volumes (thus defeating the object of audio ;) ). The sound distorts like a music concert recorded on a mobile phone (cell phone for the Americans reading this :) ).

Luckily - I don't need to use the sound a lot, I've been playing my music from my iPhone and it's dock, as it has a lineout on the rear of the dock :D

All in all - I think Intrepid is a decent release, though I totally understand people sticking with 8.04.1 as it's an LTS. I mean, I was considering it, but I love upgrading!!

In other news - that isn't worthy of it's own post - I'm going to be going to a LUG meeting next week, it'll be the first time I've ever been, so I'm a little nervous, but I'm sure I'll enjoy it. I'll let you know :D

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Well I found out that's not quite true! Slicehost give you FULL root access. How or why may be what you're thinking...well it's because you actually have a virtual machine on one of their servers. What's even better is that they're not slow servers either!

I personally have a 256 Slice as I don't really need a massively powerful server. I'll let you read the other types of slices on their website, but the 256 Slice gives me:

  • 256MB RAM
  • 10GB Hard Drive Space
  • 100GB Bandwidth

I personally think it's a brilliant idea, and it costs me $20 per month (now as I'm in the UK that works out to about £11.50). Some people may have noticed that I'm on IRC 24/7 now too...screen and irssi work great for that ;) I should also point out that all the servers you can install are Linux servers, they offer plenty (I noticed Gentoo 2007.0 got updated to 2008.0 recently) - mine runs...Ubuntu of course :D

From my (albeit brief) experience, I'd highly recommend Slicehost to anybody looking for hosting of any sort next time you're in the market for it.

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