[brlug-general] Slicehost?

[Brad Bendily]

On 8/29/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote:
> So what's the deal with slicehost? What makes them special? I keep
> hearing about them.

Well, what I like about it, not that I shopped around or looked for
similar setups, but they
give you a complete system all to yourself. They start you off with a
base OS, either gentoo, debian, Fedora, or one other, suse maybe. And
you have complete access to the box with a root account. They do
nothing on the box itself. it's all yours. Install whatever software
you want, databases, web, etc etc. You also get a static IP for your
slice, so you can point a dns name at it and it never changes.  For
$20 a month, to me, you get a lot for a low price.
I'd rather have a box that I can SSH to a root account, rather than
some web interface and FTP to upload/download files.

Since, i have a 256MB slice, it's only $20/month, one down side is
that I only get a 10GB slice of disk. I might can email them and ask
for more, but I haven't reached that point yet. I'm only at about 50%
used. It just happens to fit the need that I have.
A web server, on the internet, where I can host my personal page and
have a shell account i can access and run scripts on and do testing.
Without getting on anyone else's network.
I've thought about running mail on the slice for my domain so I can
learn/test/break it when I want. I just don't want to tackle mail just
yet.
For me, that's about it really.

bb