On: OT: does anybody have a positive experience with slicehost's 256 slice?

[carpal]

I did pretty well on a 256 meg slice. I outgrew it after awhile, and I'm currently running 8 mongrels on a 512 slice, and I'm pretty much hitting the top.

RAM is by far the biggest bottleneck for me.

Overall, Slicehost is great. I just wish they'd include more RAM in their plans.

[nikolaj → carpal]

I have several slices.. putting nginx in front of apache and lowering down apache's processes has really helped me tighten up my memory needs (I use django).

[kschrader → carpal]

I end up restarting Typo several times a week because I run into memory issues. Hopefully they'll have a way to add more RAM soon.

[chorlya → carpal]

I agree. I'd rather go with Slicehost, but extra RAM that Linode offers is just too precious to ignore.