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Just signed up to slicehost... I'll keep you all posted about how I get on.
So far so good =)

Chris...

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:19 PM, toby privett <tobyprivett at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm using slicehost too.
>
> Another +1
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Tim Wintle <timwintle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > One comment to anyone installing Ubuntu right now -
> >
> >  Make sure you get the server kernel, the default
> >  (standard) kernel is compiled with some unfortunate
> >  options for the new scheduler - basically anything
> >  running as root will be prioritised over anything
> >  else (renicing it won't have an effect).
> >
> >  The classic example would be a backup running as
> >  root (or your package manager updating etc.)
> >
> >  Fix has been accepted, but I'm not sure if it's
> >  made it's way into the repositories yet.
> >
> >  Tim W
> >
> >  (BTW, This is my first post for those who don't know me)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 09:03 +0100, Tom Burton wrote:
> >  > I'm a debian fella, but like to go with Ubuntu because among other
> >  > things it tends to have more up to date packages.
> >  >
> >  > Cheers,
> >  >
> >  > T
> >  >
> >  > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >  > Tom Burton - Technical Director
> >  >
> >  > Beef, Bristol
> >  > Digital Thinking & Doing
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> >  > ------------------------------------------------------------
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> >  >
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > On 4 May 2008, at 22:12, Steve Kirtley wrote:
> >  >
> >  > > you won't look back :)
> >  > >
> >  > > Tom - what's your distro of choice with Slicehost?
> >  > >
> >  > > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Keir Moffatt <hello at iamkeir.com>
> >  > > wrote:
> >  > >
> >  > >> Slicehost looks ace! Bookmarked...
> >  > >>
> >  > >> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Tom Burton <tom at wearebeef.co.uk>
> >  > >> wrote:
> >  > >>
> >  > >>> +1 for slicehost exceptionally good
> >  > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >  > >>> Tom Burton - Technical Director
> >  > >>>
> >  > >>> Beef, Bristol
> >  > >>> Digital Thinking & Doing
> >  > >>> www.wearebeef.co.uk | 0117 9711150
> >  > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >  > >>> Latest Project : www.electricdecember.org
> >  > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >  > >>> Registered in UK and Wales
> >  > >>> Company No.: 5868270
> >  > >>> VAT Reg: 879682448
> >  > >>>
> >  > >>>
> >  > >>>
> >  > >>>
> >  > >>>
> >  > >>> On 20 Feb 2008, at 09:02, Derek Almond wrote:
> >  > >>>
> >  > >>>>>> Many people recommend http://www.bytemark.co.uk/ but I have
> not
> >  > >>>>>> tried
> >  > >>>>>> them.
> >  > >>>>>>
> >  > >>>>
> >  > >>>> +1
> >  > >>>>
> >  > >>>> They're very very good - if you have a problem you get to talk
> to
> >  > >>>> an
> >  > >>>> actual
> >  > >>>> clued up engineer - often on his mobile out of hours, rock solid
> up
> >  > >>>> time on
> >  > >>>> my vps's and dedicated boxes.
> >  > >>>>
> >  > >>>>
> >  > >>>>
> >  > >>>>
> >  > >>>>
> >  > >>>>
> >  > >>>>
> >  > >>>>
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