Open Source Catholic Moved to Slicehost [Updated]
[Update: An article on Midwestern Mac explaining how I optimized the Slice to serve up OSC without any huge resource-hogging.]
If you can see this article, you're seeing Open Source Catholic served up fresh from Slicehost; all the sites I'm running will eventually be moved over... but for now, I'm working to optimize the Slice using Open Source Catholic as a test site.
In a short time, I'll post some of my problems/solutions, as well as thoughts on hosting providers, for the benefit of other Catholic webdevs looking to save a buck or two and have the best server setup possible!
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Eeks! As part of our transition, the Twitter feed information was a bit messed up... and now we don't have the 'all user tweets' page on the site anymore. I will work to restore this functionality, but for the time being, it's going to be disabled.
Advancing the faith.
Why Rackspace's Slicehost over Amazon Web Services?
Mostly the ability to finely tune/control the server instance. With Amazon, you're a little more at the 'mercy of the cloud.' I'm going to be running a few other apps on the slice (eventually) which will need more than the cloud can currently offer.
Advancing the faith.
It would be great to hear your trials and tribulations as you move to Slicehost. I haven't decided on using Slicehost, but will be going through the motions soon, too.
Great write-up on optimization Jeff! I hadn't heard of Slicehost, but it looks like they have some good offerings.
I currently have a VPS with Rochen (www.rochenhost.com). It's a bit pricier than most (~$150/mo) but I get 1GB RAM guaranteed, burstable to 1.5GB. They also use speedy drives (15000RPM Serial Attached SCSI). These guys actually host www.joomla.org and have incredible support staff (I believe all are Red Hat Certified). One of my favorites though is the included auto snapshot backups that are rock-solid...saved me once.
Looking forward to hearing more about your experiences though.
Yikes! I can't personally afford that much a month... at least not yet. For a larger project, I'm using a SoftLayer dedicated server with 4 GB RAM and a four-core 1.8 Ghz processor; it can handle quite a load! Of course, the bill is not paid for by me...
Advancing the faith.
I use A2 Hosting for my personal portfolio site. I have several drupal installations, WordPress, Joomla, perl and php access. I use it to stage sites and try stuff out.
I use bluehost.com, has many great features! One I particularly like is the builtin file manager with editing capabilities.
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