9 engineers on Hacker News describe using Slicehost first-hand: 0 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“we didn't stay with Slicehost because of 2 VM host failures in 2 months.”
regret · production · rkalla · 2010-06-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For small projects we could use Slicehost but those were infrequent because our clients usually needed a powerful database server.”
neutral · production · adamwiggins · 2022-05-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“4 Slicehost slices for various purposes (a demo server, our wiki, SugarCRM, website, etc.), a paid Github account for code”
neutral · production · mindcrime · 2013-02-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a bunch of slices over at Slicehost and it would costs over a thousand dollars a month”
neutral · production · jreposa · 2011-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have assets on Amazon, Slicehost, and Linode.”
neutral · production · showerst · 2011-04-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is after using both Slicehost and Media Temple”
neutral · production · mdolon · 2010-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use their DNS for our (dev and staging) servers... It's the one reason why we continue to keep a few of our VPS servers hosted there since competitors such as Linode are so much cheaper now.”
neutral · production · jeffreymcmanus · 2010-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It would slow down our entire slice on slicehost to a standstill after a few days of running.”
neutral · production · kineticac · 2010-05-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use chef for about 10-15 slicehost nodes at work (in production for about 3 months now).”
neutral · production · pie · 2010-05-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?