RIP Slicehost servers

[mark]

I just decommissioned the last two production slices we had active on Slicehost. The original load balancer slice and the admin slice.

They served us well for the ~6 months we used them. There were a number of hiccups along the way (hence our moving) but all in all it wasn't terrible. Reasonable for a beta service.

Just figured I'd note this down here.

Comments

[denny]

I'd got quite a flaky impression of them, but in fairness I've no idea what levels of problems you'd normally expect to encounter on co-lo/leased/virtual servers. How many slices did DW have at peak?

[synecdochic]

At peak, for the open beta launch, I think we were at something like 40.

[mark]

At Open Beta launch we had something like 35 slices. We dropped that down to ~18 or so later and resized many of those to a smaller size.

It was kind of flaky, yeah, we were having a slice randomly go down every week for a while there. Most didn't cause downtimes, but a few did.