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Slicehost verses Amazon EC2

What are the plus's and minus's of both of these companies and services?
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Issue with www to non www redirect

I am on slicehost and I followed the articles that they gave for DNS redirection and the www to non www url redirection does work. However, what if I want a www.domain.com to be the default domain. Would I put www.domain.com. as my DNS record name…
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What benefit do I get from using a 64-bit server?

Possible Duplicate: What benefits are there to running a 64-bit Operating System? I bought a small 256MB slice from slicehost and installed Ubuntu 10.04 64bit and wordpress on it. Performance was dismal as apache was eating up all my memory. Once…
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slicehost google apps mx settings

I am banging my head against the wall on this one. I followed the MX setup tutorials for Google Mail and it didn't work. Currently, after deleting those records and adding the ones google suggested I have domain.com. 86400 IN MX 10…
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Slicehost too much swap usage

I currently have a website running on Slicehost. It is running the MySource Matrix CMS which does take up a fair amount of resources. Every once in a while, I get an alert from slice host saying that my swap usage has been very high. And, when…
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Upgrading Fedora 10 to 11 on Slicehost

I have used the following instructions: # yum -y update # yum install preupgrade # preupgrade-cli # reboot It could not upgrade grub and after a reboot its still Fedora 10. The problem seems to be slicehost specific. Can you help me?
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jetty 6.x on ubuntu jaunty 9.04

I am a complete newbie - to sys admin. Actually, I don't know if I should ask this to developers or sys admins. I am trying to configure a 256mb slice on slicehost - intending to install Jetty 6/7. I looked up the documentation and found everything…
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Are there any good alternatives to Slicehost's built-in backup system?

I use Slicehost for my VPS needs and am generally very pleased with them. They charge $12.50 per month for their backup service. It seems like the system has been designed to be idiot proof. In their own words: Backups are offered as an add on…
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Causes of HTTP to be down, but not HTTPS?

I came into work to a problem I haven't run into before, and was curious to see if anyone here might have any ideas about what may have caused it. We run a VPS from Slicehost and sometime yesterday, the sites we host went down (after working…
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Change Slicehost operating system without losing data

I want to change the operating system on a Slicehost VPS. I'd like to do this in the least painful way possible, so I'm trying to figure out a way to do it without building a new slice from scratch using the new OS. If it matters, I am switching…
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How to associate a domain name and IP address?

The situation is as follows: I am renting a dedicated server using SliceHost. On this server I have installed a small HTTPServer. I can verify that it works by nativating directly to its IP address (example). I have also purchased a domain name from…
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Nginx redirect one domain to another

I have two domain's set up on my server. Domain 1 is configured with google apps so that mail.domain1.com goes to google's mail. However, I would like domain1.com to redirect to domain2.com. Currently in my nginx.conf file I had server { listen…
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What is the worst distro on Linode?

We are going to move from Slicehost to Linode (the 1024MB ram) to host our website. Now we have to take a distribution. After discussing, the remaining candidates are: Arch Linux 2010.05 Debian 5.0 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS The needs are simple: once…
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DNS Problems with .me domain

I recently registered a .me domain through GoDaddy. I set the nameservers to my slicehost servers immediately, and that change has been reflected in the .me WHOIS since day one. However, after almost two weeks, still can't look up the site. Is…
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