[geeks] Virtual Colocation

[Jeremy Grosser]

Slicehost also gives 100 GB of transfer monthly at 100 Mbps, burstable
to 1 Gbps (provided that other people hosted on the same box are using
minimal amounts of throughput). Unfortunately, Slicehost doesn't
support any of the BSDs at the moment. They're waiting for the FreeBSD
port to stabilize a bit and they'll need to rework their
infrastructure a bit to get it working (or so I'm told).

At the moment, Slicehost's problem is that they're growing faster than
they can keep up. That, added to the fact that they're hosted in a
fairly small datacenter [1] will probably make for some troublesome
growing pains within the next few months. They're looking into getting
some space in a couple other datacenters, but I have no idea how far
along with the capacity planning.

Overall, Slicehost is run by a decent group of people that seem to
know what they're doing. While they may be dealing with a few issues
right now, I have no doubt that they'll eventually work it out. (and I
always liked cheering for the little guy anyway)

[1] http://www.datotel.com/
--
Jeremy Grosser
www.neohippie.net

On 5/3/07, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeremy Grosser wrote:
> > I've been using Slicehost [1] for about two months now and am quite
> > impressed. They have a policy of not overselling and their admins are on IRC
> > fairly often. The only disadvantage is that they've got quite a long waiting
> > list due to their limit of 24 VMs to a single host (each host is a quad
> > processor Xeon with 32 GB of RAM). They run Xen for all of the
> > virtualization so you're limited to major Linux distributions for
> > installation (Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, Gentoo). Their prebuilt images
> > install in about two minutes after which, you'll get an email with an IP and
> > a root password.
> >
> > They're a newcomer to the VPS market, but having seen the competition, I'd
> > say they're selling a decent bang for the buck ($20/month gets you 256 MB of
> > RAM and 10 GB of disk)
>
> I was looking at PANIX for a NetBSD 3.1 VM (also on Xen), for $20, you
> get 256MB of RAM and 8GB disk, and 100GB/month transfers.  Plus PANIX
> has an excellent reputation.  How much transfer does Slicehost give you?
>
> Plus, no waiting list.
>
> Peace...  Sridhar
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