Joe Blog's » web 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= Slicehost http://blog.joeb454.com/2008/10/slicehost/ http://blog.joeb454.com/2008/10/slicehost/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:48:20 +0000 Joe http://joeb454.wordpress.com/?p=189 Now, I'm sure a great many of you have at least looked into getting dedicated web hosting or VPS Servers at some point or another, I know I have! The real killer on it for me, was partly cost, and partly due to the fact that I would be limited as to what was on there, as I couldn't install anything on the server - no company would give you root access for obvious reasons.

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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