I idle in #slicehost, an IRC channel for my VPS provider, and see people come in all day long complaining about how slow their app is running on Slicehost compared to shared hosting. Nearly every single time the user installed Ubuntu (not that there is anything wrong with that; it’s what I use) and are [...]
RSSmeme is getting hit hard by the Googlebot and msnbot. Rather than telling them to slow down (I want to get into the Google index as fast as possible) I decided to upgrade to a 512MB slice for the time being. Slicehost made this drop dead simple. I clicked a button in the control panel [...]
I’ve flicked the switch to move all of my sites from DreamHost to SliceHost. I’ll be keeping DreamHost for the time being because they offer a lot of storage and I use DreamHost as a backup solution by rsyncing my home directory. I’ve already tested a few sites; the speed increase (especially on my Django [...]
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