Slicehost

As with DrBacchus, I am now the proud owner of a slice.

I decided to migrate all my websites, hosted email, and other miscellaneous hosted services to a dedicated service,  rather than hosting it elsewhere.  I had struggled to keep the box located in my employers datacentre racks, due to space and the somewhat agreessive use of the corpororate bandwidth.

So I opted to use a CentOS slicehost service.  The host has been up for nearing 20 days now, not long in the scheme of things I know, but, I don’t care.  I now have all my services off-site, and backed up two fold (by myself and by slicehost snapshots. Daily, weekly, and monthly.) I dont need to worry about a thing.

The only downside for me, personally, is that the hardware is co-located in the US.  Which means my round-trip times have increased from ~25ms to in excess of 75ms.  Not huge, I know. But noticeable.

I am considering upgrading from my 256 slice, to a 512.  As I have a few php sites (this one included) and a few MySQL databases.  My assigned phisyical RAM is almost gone. Oh well, let’s see how she gets on.