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Re: Making scaling a money issue vs. a time issue?

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Post by davidw » Fri, Aug 31, 2007, 8:11 AM UTC

nameless wrote: post #6

gmlk wrote: post #4

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I'm using slicehost and I'm loving it! :) http://slicehost.com

Those guys are cheap. Kinda scares me a bit that they say they've built everything themselves. How is the control panel? Is there any way to view the real time statistics (cpu, database connections, etc) on your server?

You can get a dedicated box from Layered Tech for about the same price. Same deal though - you run everything yourself.

Re: Making scaling a money issue vs. a time issue?

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Post by staunch » Fri, Aug 31, 2007, 8:40 AM UTC

I would totally avoid any special "grid" crap. That stuff is snake oil. I'd also avoid VPS too, since the price of fully dedicated servers is so low these days. Less than $100/mo for a machine you can call your own.

I think ServerBeach has a better deal than all the other sites mentioned here. I've been super happy with them (and a couple friends who signed up have as well). They do offer cPanel and Plesk and I think give you Webmin by default. I don't use that stuff myself though.

(If you sign up for Serverbeach you can use my referral # 7XYHDMBU8A for $100 credit and I so get credit too http://www.serverbeach.com/catalog/cust_ref_landing_new.php?... )

Re: Making scaling a money issue vs. a time issue?

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Post by nameless » Fri, Aug 31, 2007, 4:44 PM UTC

davidw wrote: post #11

nameless wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those guys are cheap. Kinda scares me a bit that they say they've built everything themselves. How is the control panel? Is there any way to view the real time statistics (cpu, database connections, etc) on your server?

You can get a dedicated box from Layered Tech for about the same price. Same deal though - you run everything yourself.

Not even close to slice's price actually. They start at 99$ for a VPS, which is what we are talking about. Slice starts at 20$.

Re: Making scaling a money issue vs. a time issue?

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Post by davidw » Fri, Aug 31, 2007, 5:10 PM UTC

nameless wrote: post #13

davidw wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can get a dedicated box from Layered Tech for about the same price. Same deal though - you run everything yourself.

Not even close to slice's price actually. They start at 99$ for a VPS, which is what we are talking about. Slice starts at 20$.

Yeah, $20 for a way underpowered (256megs?!) system with little storage. I guess that could work if you have a system that you want to scale up little by little, but I'm suspicious of VPS's after having had a few blow up on me and generally perform badly.

When comparing apples to apples, you want to look at LT's specials:

https://order.layeredtech.com/ConfigureServer.lt?method=disp...

Which is $20 setup and $70 a month, which is the same price as the slice system, only with double the storage and your own, real computer.