Andrew Powell

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Andrew Powell

Hello Slicehost

December 17, 2008 · 7 Comments

I've been having some issues with my hosting provider.  I thought about naming names, but I'll pass on that, for now.  I finally got fed up with the issues that I was having, so I decided to look for alternates:

I came across the folks at Slicehost.  After some asking around and doing research on my own, I figured that I'd give them a shot.  It sure is a heck of a deal.  At less than 1/2 the cost of the VPS I had at the other provider, I got the same power and flexibility that I had with the other provider.  The only difference is that I had to do all the DB and ColdFusion setup myself. 

No big deal, I can handle that.  I had to get back into linux a bit, but that was like riding a bike.  I didn't even cheat and use webmin!  

So, now I'm hosted at Slicehost and we'll see how this goes....

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Hello Slicehost

Tags: Apache · BlazeDS · ColdFusion · Linux

7 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Todd Rafferty // Dec 18, 2008 at 7:59 AM

    Yeah, I was looking at them as well. Can you host multiple domains with a slice or is it one domain per slice? I don't ever recall getting that answer.

  • 2 Todd Rafferty // Dec 18, 2008 at 8:21 AM

    Nevermind, I see it in the FAQ now. :)

  • 3 Andrew Powell // Dec 18, 2008 at 10:35 AM

    If you click on this link: <br /><br />https://manage.slicehost.com/customers/new?referrer=e039728fc5e087f2d8b1fd451abbb50e<br /><br />I'll get a nice little referral fee. It would be appreciated.

  • 4 Mike Duguid // Dec 18, 2008 at 8:48 PM

    Another vps provider with a similar ethos to slicehost is linode. With linode you get more memory for the same money, and a choice of datacentres to get the best ping. Slicehost has a better disk setup on their servers though. Rackspace's acquisition of slicehost may be a good (infrastructure) or bad (pricing to go in line with their server division?) thing in the future.

  • 5 slicematt // Dec 19, 2008 at 8:24 AM

    Welcome aboard!

  • 6 Vilas // Jan 22, 2009 at 7:52 PM

    I'm gonna switch over to Slicehost..I'll get you that referral fee.<br /><br />Any suggestions for CF on Linux for Slicehost?

  • 7 Andrew Powell // Jan 23, 2009 at 4:50 AM

    CentOS or Fedora would be my choice

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