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Slicehost vs Linode

Slicehost.com vs Linode.com Which one do you recommend? Are there any major differences between these two? What are your personal experience?
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Scrollback not working in terminal window (ssh session)

I have an ubuntu slice at slicehost, which means it is a DomU on a Xen host - and it's a pretty stripped down installation. The thing that bugs me is that scrolling back in the terminal using shift-pgup doesn't work. Can anybody tell me what package…
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Slicehost Alternatives

What are some good alternatives to the virtual private server company sliceshost? I would like a few alternates providers.
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How do I enable the IMAP functions in PHP?

I have a LAMP box running Ubuntu, Apache 2 and PHP5 with Slicehost. I'm a bit new to all this sysadmin stuff (I'm primarily a web developer). I need to use the IMAP functions in PHP, but they don't seem to be enabled according to phpinfo(). How do I…
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How can I upgrade my Slicehost VPS Ubuntu 7.10 slice to 8.10?

I have an Ubuntu 7.10 slice on Slicehost running my main web server. I want to update to Ubuntu 8.10 because the repositories are gone for 7.10 and I want the latest security and application upgrades. Slicehost does not seem to let me dist-upgrade…
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User cron jobs are not running but system jobs are

wouldn't be posting here if I hadn't tried everything I could find on the interwebs...would appreciate any guidance from a seasoned sysadmin. Here is my problem: cron jobs in /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.hourly etc. are running fine on my Slicehost…
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CNAME causing "Server Not Found" with AWS S3

I have a goDaddy site with a CNAME record set up to look at a specific bucket in my S3 account. It works fine and loads files without problem. I have a server with SliceHost that has a CNAME record ("static") set up exactly the same as the one at…
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Slice for just memcache?

So I have all of my sites hosted at Slicehost and right now have each application on a separate slice. Would it make sense to get a separate slice setup for just memcache and have my separate apps all use memcache on that slice? What would be the…
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How to copy DNS zones from Slicehost to DNSmadeasy

It seems that Slicehost DNS doesn't offer AXFR, but it does have an API. I have about 20 domains in Slicehost DNS and I'd like to automate the export process if possible. I've been trying to figure out how to export the records as zone files, and I…
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What gotchas should I be aware of before transitioning from my VPS to Amazon's elastic cloud?

I see that there are lots of VPS/cloud questions, but they all seem geared towards choosing for a new project - I'm interested in switching teams. For the last 18 months or so, I've been very happy with Slicehost. (In fact: I recommend them.) But as…
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OTP vs Ssh Keys

I am trying to decide whether OTP (Wikid) or Ssh Keys would be practically more secure in the following scenarios : Option 1 - Wikid OTP : 3 Servers @ Slicehost; shared private network over which radius auth traffic passes. Hosts firewalled…
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Locked out of my Slicehost.com Ubuntu box

--- Latest Edit ----------------------------------- Thanks to all who helped but I'm still stuck. I'm desperate now. Any other processes to restart besides the sshd? I don't know which directions to go to? Any other ideas? For a few months I…
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Upgrading Fedora distribution with yum distro-sync fails with Error: Protected multilib versions

Using these instructions we are carrying out a yum upgrade on a Slicehost slice (NB. this is not a Rackspace vhost, if it was we could probably just do a standard install of the latest Fedora distro) from Fedora 15 to 16, this follows an apparently…
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How to setup bazaar on slicehost

I managed to install bazaar on slicehost - but I am not sure how to make the repository web accessible. Any suggestions?
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Ruby processes showing high cpu activity

I have three virtual linux servers running on Slicehost. Two of them are running 2.6.24-23-xen one is running 2.6.18-xen. All three servers are running almost identical software but the behaviour of top is different between the 2.6.24 and 2.6.18…
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