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I signed up for a VPS on Slicehost today, and am very impressed. The interface is refreshingly basic and I was up and running in no time. Their articles are absolutely amazing, and worth the read even if you don’t use their services. I know Ubuntu somewhat, but am far from an expert. Using the Ubuntu set up guide, I was up and running in under an hour. I made a stupid mistake when copying my public key and had to rebuild my slice. But that’s the beauty of the cloud, just hit a button, start with a fresh install and go again.

I am testing it out, as I have a dedicated server which costs too much for the small number of low traffic sites I maintain. After going through all the articles on getting the basics set up, I altered my /etc/hosts file on my desktop to point to the IP address of my new slice, updated the ServerAlias in the Apache vhosts file to include the “slice” domain name in my /etc/hosts file, and then finally enabled mod_rewite (sudo a2enmod rewrite) so I could test out a site that was running Zend_Framework without having to actual point production traffic at it.

I then set up rysnc and get some database permission set up and tables copied over, and it was live. Talk about easy….

I looked at Amazon, and while it offers a lot of flexibility and they are developing more and more tools (instead of APIs), it just seemed like way to much work for my limited needs. Anyways, really impressed with Slicehost after just one day, we’ll see how it goes in the next week or so. This blog may be moving over next…

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