Re: [Nolug] slicehost performance

We had heavily used slicehost before they were bought by rackspace.
Because of the way they handle priority in their xen cluster, unless
you have their largest vm / 'slice' , any cpu intensive applications
will lag from time to time (depending on the load on your actual
hardware based on however else they resell it). This was a serious
problem for us from December to January (we have since migrated away
from them, and now run our own eucalyptus clusters using xen source at
softlayer dallas and softlayer dc). Also, during this time, and all
the way from November we had intermittent route issues. Their dns is
solid though :)

They might have fixed these problems by now (we are able to segment
resources very effectively with xen, so I can't see it being a lasting
problem for someone with the resources of rackspace / slicehost).

Just a little bit of 'buyer be warned'

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:24 PM, B. Estrade <estrabd@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:00:57PM -0600, Petri Laihonen wrote:
>> I assume someone on the list have experience with slicehost
>> http://slicehost.com/
>>
>> While I'm thinking about getting couple of 1Gb slices,
>> does anyone have any comments about their performance, reliability, etc?
>> In other words, is it good enough to run business applications?.
>
> That's a loaded question :)...I used it for a time, and liked it, but
> being a FreeBSD'er I opted to go with rootbsd.net after a little while
> of banging my head against some linux distro's. I'd have to say that I
> liked SH's set up, but RootBSD.net did it for me. I've been nothing
> but pleased with their reliability, performance, and support. Their
> prices ain't bad either.
>
> http://www.rootbsd.net
>
> Brett
>
>>
>> They seem to be very clear about the offerings and pricing etc.....
>> (including the non-existent SLA)
>>
>> Petri
>>
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