Despite having very little Linux experience, I’m too enticed by VPS (and too sick of cPanel/shared hosting crap) to not give it a try.
I’m a smart kid and pick up things pretty quick. I took a class in Linux and know basic commands, how to pipe commands, some scripting and shell stuff — all of which I’ve nearly forgotten… but I’m ready to learn it all again. Since I’ll be using either Linode or Slicehost, I’m granted the opportunity to screw up a lot.
So, which distro would be best for me to start with? I’m looking for ease of use and administration here, especially in terms of installing LAMP + memcache and having it up and running by the end of today.
Linode or Slicehost? Any inherent differences between the two? Linode seems cheaper.
Finally, so as not to leave the referral field blank for whichever host I choose, please provide you’re info and the winning answer will get a referral 🙂
Been using Linode for several months, it took less than an hour to set up the the virtual ‘boxes’, and we haven’t touched it since, so from my point of view (as a developer) that gets two thumbs up.
Using Ubuntu and haven’t encountered any problems since initial setup.
Haven’t used Slicehost but frankly after the simplicity of Linode setup, wouldn’t need to switch/try anything else.