Re: [Nolug] slicehost performance

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:57:28PM -0600, Dennis J Harrison Jr wrote:
> 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'

I'd like to point out that RootBSD.net uses Xen now, but when I got on
it used FreeBSD 'jails,' which allow non-virtualized sharing of a main
FreeBSD instance. I've resisted the requests to migrate over, but I'm
happy "in" jail atm. They don't offer jails anymore, so I can't tell
you how well the xen images perform.

Brett

>
> 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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