November 26th, 2009
Happy Turkey Day
While most of us in the United States are already busy filling up on turkey and enjoying quality time with our good friends and family, we wanted to let everyone know that work at Slicehost continues as normal.
Currently, we have Fedora 12 and Gentoo 10.1 images in testing. We'll need some time to run them through the gauntlet, but granted everything goes as expected, we should be able to have those images publicly available shortly.
As always, we will have 24 hour coverage so if you find yourself online, please do drop by SliceChat and show the support team your appreciation.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Mark
November 26th, 2009 at 07:08 AM Musfuut
BIRD!!
November 26th, 2009 at 06:03 PM Ross Harvey
Here is what slicehost did for me on thanksgiving evening.
I was proceeding to a second interview at a SAAS company. I have needed a VPS for some time, but yesterday I really needed it so I pulled out my credit card, which slicehost promptly charged, and signed up. I wanted to demonstrate remote admin of a linux server via ssh on my android phone. Later, I would use the slice to run a simple personal rails site and blog.
Slicehost charged the card, set up my service. All I did was install htop and ssh keys, and make a could INBOUND test logins. Then I got in my car and proceeded to the interview.
I arrived at my interview and seconds before trying to run my remote admin demo, SLICEHOST PULLED THE PLUG and sent me an EMAIL demanding personal information (that they already had) via, get this, email. They ruined my demo, damaged my interview, but charged me just the same. Naturally I wasn’t checking email during the interview.
You might ask, why didn’t I set it up earlier? Well, I had the first interview just the day before. I had no idea they were using remote datacenters. I only had the next morning to think up a demo.
The real irony here is that should I be hired my first task would be to set up a second remote datacenter full of hardware, something slicehost could have been the contractor for. Another irony: supposedly slicehost is RoR-friendly, this SAAS company IS exclusively RoR-based, and my site and my, ahem, blog are RoR-oriented.
And, I received no explanation other than a whiny email complaining about how slicehost was doing their customers such a big favor by fighting spammers. I had not sent a single email or made a single outbound connection except possibly one to get htop.
November 26th, 2009 at 06:17 PM Mike
When in doubt blame everything on someone else! w00t!
November 27th, 2009 at 01:44 AM Billee D.
Seriously, Mr. Harvey. Do you really expect anyone to buy that excuse? It’s your fault for not taking the time to prepare beforehand and I find it rude, immature and downright trollish to blame Slicehost for your own oversight. That’s a bit like blaming the train for being on-schedule when you yourself are running behind.
Happy Thanksgiving!
December 12th, 2009 at 04:48 PM stumble
Harvey sorry but its your fault nothing to do with the slicehost guys cheers .
March 8th, 2010 at 09:41 PM john
Great Photo!
April 22nd, 2010 at 02:39 PM Jens Rabattgutschein
Enjoy your meal:-) Hopefully it’s not too much for the cat…
April 25th, 2010 at 11:08 AM Zauberer Florian Berlin
Someone should help the cat – So close to the goal.^^ Nice shot.