| | 1 | = SliceHost = |
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| | 3 | SliceHost are a commercial virtual machine provider. |
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| | 5 | * [http://www.slicehost.com/ Home page] |
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| | 7 | I have used SliceHost for a number of projects and found them to be reliable and very easy to use. |
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| | 9 | * Flexible Terms |
| | 10 | * No contracts, no setup fees. |
| | 11 | * Upgrade, downgrade, add a slice or remove a slice anytime. |
| | 12 | * Billing is monthly, cancel at anytime. |
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| | 14 | * Available Linux distributions |
| | 15 | * Centos 5.5 |
| | 16 | * Centos 5.4 |
| | 17 | * Fedora 14 |
| | 18 | * Fedora 13 |
| | 19 | * Fedora 12 |
| | 20 | * Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) |
| | 21 | * Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) LTS |
| | 22 | * Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) |
| | 23 | * Ubuntu 8.04.2 (Hardy) LTS |
| | 24 | * Debian 5.0 (Lenny) |
| | 25 | * Gentoo 10.1 |
| | 26 | * Arch 2010.05 |
| | 27 | * Red Hat EL 5.4 |
| | 28 | * Red Hat EL 5.3 |
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| | 30 | Allocating a new virtual machine is quick and easy and typically takes less than 30 seconds. |
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| | 32 | They offer a range of initial VM sizes from 256Mbytes to 15Gbytes and you can resize a machine whenever you need to from the web based control panel. |
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| | 34 | Changing the memory size of a live VM takes about 2 minutes to make a snapshot of the current system and then reboot it. |
| | 35 | The VM is offline for about 30 seconds during this process. |
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| | 37 | The flexibility of SliceHost make then ideal for hosting test and development machines, but they are reliable enough to host live systems. |
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| | 39 | This system [http://www.timeuse.org/] has been hosted on a SliceHost server for over two years with no interruption to service. |
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| | 41 | In October 2008 SliceHost became a wholly owned subsidiary of Rackspace Hosting Inc. |
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