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Well, after quite a number of years at Serverbeach, I think the time has come to find another solution. Chugging along happily on Fedora Core 2, my dedicated server has functioned without a hitch from Day 1. But FC2 is getting a little stale, errata updates have gone away, and so I’m looking to migrate over to Ubuntu, and I’m also looking for a new provider that can offer me more options for less money.
Enter Slicehost. If you don’t mind being on a virtual machine on a shared host (you get guaranteed memory and processor-time minimums), these guys seem like a good crew that really know what they’re doing. They don’t oversell their resources, and you get a lot at a reasonable price: decent bandwidth, a range of sizing options, choice of distro, RAID1, daily snapshot backup/restore, and even console access.
This could be the start of a beautiful friendship…