Thursday, March 5, 2009

Slicehost

SliceHost is defiantly the best rails host that I have used. Here are the big advantages:

You have your very own "virtual server":
  • Shared hosting sucks. Its difficult to get SSH access, the web servers are slow, they are not optimized for Rails
  • With your own server, you can install your own versions of whatever you want. If you want to run Mysql 4 with PHP 4, then its your choice.
No Stupid Contracts:
  • Slicehost is a month-to-month contract. If you don't like them, just drop them.
Pre-built Linux Distributions:
  • Setting up a slice with Linux is a breeze. They have many distributions already built including Ubuntu, CentOs, Debian, etc..
Built in DNS:
  • Installing and configuring BIND is something I would like to avoid. Slicehost has nameservers that you could use, and an extremely simple interface to modify records.
Articles:
  • I love guides. I don't want to spend hours "figuring things out". I want a guide that works and showes me step-by-step. SliceHost has a number of articles on how to setup things on your server. Some of the articles I have used are:
  • Setting up DNS records
  • Setting up a Mail Server
  • Rebooting My Slice
  • And many more...

I have been very pleased with their customer service and support. I would HIGHLY recommend it for anyone looking for a great web host.
Here is a link to their website:
SliceHost

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