I'm considering SliceHost. Has anyone had good/bad personal experience with them? Unexpected outages? Hard to get console? Unexpected bills? Above-and-beyond service? Comments that are post-merger are especially appreciated. Thanks On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Jeremy <tclug at lizakowski.com> wrote: > > Slichost starts at $20/mo, and you get root and your choice of distro, as well > as access to the console. > > On Thursday 13 November 2008 9:44:57 am Kevin Lombardo wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> > wrote: >> > I'm not sure what kinds of services are available for what I want. I >> > think the best thing for me would be to have a place that allowed me to >> > house a server and charged me for bandwidth. I would connect by ssh to >> > do system administration. The server would do email, web, and maybe >> > other stuff too. It wouldn't be a bandwidth hog because. >> > >> > Is what I need called a "colo" (colocation) center? Whether it is called >> > that or not, who should I go to in the twin cities for this kind of >> > service? >> > >> > Mike >> >> A cheap non-local option is a dedicated server from Core Networks >> (http://corenetworks.net/dedicated/). I've had good luck with the >> Starter package, and the IP KVM was very useful when I screwed up my >> SSH server ;) >> >> These are bare servers when you get them, you can install any prebuilt >> image Core Networks has or you can use the IP KVM to install your own >> OS. >> >> Of course the servers are a little undersized and I don't know about >> fault tolerance, but this was a perfect option for me. Co-location >> seems to be at least $100/month and you have to provide your own >> hardware. >> >> Kevin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >