Some Info On Slicehost/Linode
May 7, 2009
I have a Magentocommerce shoping cart presently hosted on a dedicated server (2.40GHz , 28 KB Cache celeron processor - 512 MB RAM) and the processor is running on full steam when customer accesses certain pages. This is because the shopping cart is processor intensive. I see that my MYSQL hogs the processor and am looking to VPS to provide me with more power for less cost.
I have slicehost and Linode on my list of VPS providers.
1.Linode offer only RAID-1 against Slichost's RAID-10. Does this matter that much? How do I decide on this?
2. From what I see, on VPS, a 256 MB plan would mean around 40 sites sharing the quad core processor which means, I would get worst case, 250MHz guaranteed from VPS provider. Will this still be better than my present celeron processor. I am unable to compare them.
3. I would like to hire someone reliable to get the VPS server installed with basic LAMP setup and extensions required for Magento. Will someone be able to help me on this? Where do I look for such a service?
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Jul 15, 2008
I am wondering what the difference between Linode and Slicehost is they both seem pretty solid (However linode's real monthly billing is more appealing.)
Also when someone has a VPS (the cheapest (256mb ram...)) Do you find it easy to run your own Sql server and Memcached while running a webserver?
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Sep 4, 2008
A friend and I both recently purchased VPS "slices" for various reasons. I joined linode.com and he joined slicehost, agreeing that we'd share opinions and experiences with each other to see which one was the better deal.
Up front, slicehost gives a better first impression - but that's subjective - so we were at first both inclined to buy from them. That's when we learned about linode through WHT.
We both got a low-end slice - he got the 256MB slice from slicehost, I got the 360MB slice from linode.
After about 2 months of service with both companies, I can definitely say that they've lived up to both their reputations. We haven't experienced any downtimes from either of them, performance has never felt sluggish (although the extra ram from linode certainly helps!), and support has been quick to respond from both companies.
I think the thing about our particular situation, though, is that we're both very familiar with linux systems, so apart from the initial set up phase where we wanted to make sure we got the right distro (CentOS 5 users here), we haven't heavily used either administrative web apps. Most of our access after day 1 has been ssh to our machines to install various components, mostly ruby, rails, mysql, rubygems, apache, and the rest of the web app stack.
For our situation, both these companies met expectations, and I give them a thumbs up to potential customers that are on the fence for whatever reason. That said, I'm giving the slight edge to linode, because you're getting basically the same service but with more RAM at the same price.
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Jan 20, 2009
I'd like to ask linode.com customers if they're happy with their service.
Are the VPSes fast? Are there I/O problems? Bandwidth? etc.
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Oct 2, 2008
So I was wondering if anyone here uses linode and if they are using it for torrenting how well its working and what kind of files are you "torrenting".
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Dec 4, 2008
I am after companies who will have vps plans with cpanel/whm operating servers out of Freemont. Is there anyone that is able to point me in the right direction.
Apparently freemont to melbourne australia is the best way to setup a serious hosting account.
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Apr 28, 2008
Here is my review on Linode. I have been using them for 4 months now. I was referred to them by a friend and I will try to cover the most important areas.
They provide UML VPSes and Xen-based VPSes. My VPS is Xen-based. I use it for:
-Small IRC Server
-Personal file/web hosting
-SFTP/Shell access for myself and friends
-Experiments and installs
Linode.com
Time Used: 4 Months
Setup:
The setup was very quick. I ordered and payed and within a couple hours I was able to login. Their system is very cool because upon your first login you build your VPS from absolute scratch. You decide first off which of their 3 datacenters you would like it in, and also your OS choice and configure your swap space and everything.
Service and Network:
These areas are very strong with linode. I chose their Dallas location in ThePlanet's datacenter. The network speeds are very fast. Pings are very quick, downloads max out, and many connections can be opened at once without anything noticeably slowing down. The host server I am on is a quad xeon 2Ghz and I'm not completely sure how much RAM it has but I know it is somewhere between 8-12GB. My pages and files always load quickly and the server load averages are never higher than normal. Their linode control panel is very nice since it was made in-house. It provides many customization options and things to play around with. Complete with CPU and network usage graphs as well as and area to start, stop, reboot, boot from another OS image, or reinstall your VPS, their control panel is probably the best I have used out of the 10+ VPS hosts I have experienced. Overall I would say they do a good job in this area.
Billing:
Pretty good for the most part, auto-charges my credit card for each month's payment so I don't have to deal much with billing. No complaints.
Support:
I haven't had much of a need for their support but I have opened a few tickets for various things. The replies are fairly quick usually within a half hour and many times quicker. The linodes are unmanaged, however, so they are basically there to help out with questions concerning setup or issues on their end. I needed help adding my additional IP and they gave me a few suggestions that put me on my way. Very nice and helpful and pretty good for an unmanaged host. I have used many unamanaged VPS hosts that act annoyed when you send them support emails or simply ignore them. Linode takes things seriously and is very sincere in there approach from what I have experienced.
Overall/Final Look:
Overall, I am very satisfied with Linode. They have met and surpassed my needs and expectations as a customer and I would not rather be hosted by anyone else. They are very professional and have a nice setup for provisioning new clients and maintaining their systems. Notifications of scheduled maintenance are always sent out to affected clients, so there are no huge surprises. I would recommend them to anyone and for the money, it's a pretty good deal. I hope you or anyone else may consider them if looking for a VPS provider in the future.
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Nov 1, 2007
All my slices at slicehost and slicehost.com are down! any similar experience? anybody knows of a planned network outage?
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Feb 9, 2009
I need a VPS server for a gaming server that requires an uber/good upload connection speed. Packet transfer speeds range from 4 Kbps to 40+ Kbps for each player and I have about 300 players on the server at any given time. RAM/Processor isn't that important just ~1 GB of RAM would be sufficient. I heard good reviews about slicehost and ubiquityservers and I'm having a tough decision on who to choose for my gaming server.
U's Infinity VPS and Slicehost's 1GB slice plan are the same price.
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Jan 12, 2009
What experience do you guys have with slicehost?
It pretty much allows you to do whatever you want with a RAM limit, completely from scratch.
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Nov 19, 2007
My service at Slicehost recently got very slow so I don't think their network management is the best it could be. So I'm preparing to leave if it remains like this for anymore than a few days. Is there any VPS people could recommend with comparable service catered to developers with an active community and good connection speeds?
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Nov 11, 2008
I have been using DreamHost for several years and for the most part it has been a good experience. The price is cheap, you can host an unlimited number of sites, and I have not experienced much downtime.
But now that I am hosting a lot of sites based on WordPress, server performance has become an issue. It can take anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds for a site to appear in a browser. In comparison, the static HTML sites that I crank out in Dreamweaver pop up almost instantly.
I have done some research on companies offering virtual web servers and it appears that a lot of people like SliceHost. I am aware that I will now have to administer my own web server and no longer have the benefit of using c-panel. This doesn't scare me as I have been playing around with Linux and Apache since RedHat 4.0 and now use Ubuntu at work.
Before I sign up for a $20/monthly account at SliceHost, I am wondering if I will notice a significant performance difference between them and DreamHost? Has anyone on this forum ever made this switch and if so, did they think it was worth it?
Right now, I have about 25 domains on my DreamHost account that I will be moving over. About 12 of them are WordPress and I plan to eventually convert the remaining static sites over to either WordPress or Joomla. I also have about 12 sites on BlueHost that I would like to eventually transfer to the virtual hosting plan as well. So I will eventually be hosting about 40 sites. (As a side note, it seems that BlueHost's servers have a slight performance edge over DreamHost. But it doesn't seem to be that great.)
Obviously, the ultimate solution would be to get my own server at a co-location place like RackSpace, but right now, I don't want to spend the additional $$$ and want to become a better website admin before I make this jump.
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All fine & dandy. Now the present issue is that this morning he decided that it's time to get a new/different webhost for this venture. A bit of background...
Now this client has close to a dozen websites spread out over various hosting facilities that he's randomly found over the years. Ie, he's the sort that will pick the first or 2nd google result and call to give credit card details and let whoever is doing his IT at the time sort it out from there. So at this point he's got close to a dozen different sites (mostly focused around 4-5 business that revolve around their 'core' business) spread out all over, and it's a pain to administrate when issues arise.
Needless to say the randomness with which he does his IT decisions (he doesn't understand that web hosting isn't the same as buying off the shelf software for MS os's) is part of the reason for the randomess of the results he's gotten. I've slowly taken over more & more of the out-of-office IT related activities for their companies as a result, and have at least kept things stable the last year or so.
So for this new venture they're doing, I also want to get hosting I can eventually move all of his sites to (over the next couple of months). I think what I want for him is something equivalent to a reseller account somewhere that offers good support and acceptable uptime, because none of his sites generate incredible traffic counts or bandwidth counts, but it sure would be nice to have them consolidated into a single location that I can administrate them from. Most of the smaller sites can be moved as easily as ftp'ing things into place, doing a bit of quick database work and then moving dns, but one or two sites have enough traffic and custom rolled php so that will take a bit longer.
So the difficulty comes because I need to find something by this evening, get it up & running with a domain currently registered (dns) at godaddy, and have it be something I can migrate the rest of his sites to over the next 2-3 months. I do *not* have an LLC for my personal business so I don't want to resell hosting to him (I'm assuming that the liability isn't worth it for my dba status) but I do want to find something we can have dozens (maybe 50 eventually?) of sites hosted under. Typically I see this advertised by hosting companies as reseller accounts.
And I'm relying on info gathered here to supplant my decision making, as I did my last round of looking into hosts several months back and garnered a short list that I can't post here because of my new account status. So I'll just name them:
wiredtree
rackspace
slicehost
joyent
(these next 3 I have reseller hosting specifics from)
mosso
a2hosting
mediatemple
bravenet
dreamhost
More or less in the order that I perceived them to be at the time. Mosso is one of the ones that specifically lists reseller hosting, but I'm reading mixed things about them here and elsewhere on the net. Wiredtree looks interesting, but I'm not trying to move his sites to a single facility with independant plans per site,
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NS1
NS2
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Warning: finfo_file(): supplied argument is not a valid file_info resource in /home/tomita/public_html/ff/fileinfo.php on line 3
Warning: finfo_close(): supplied argument is not a valid file_info resource in /home/tomita/public_html/ff/fileinfo.php on line 4
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<pre><?php
$finfo=finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME);
$FT=finfo_file($finfo,'windows2008.png');
finfo_close($finfo);
print_r($FT);
?>
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10x
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