December 11th, 2007

Slicehost tidbits

We’re working on lots of little things as we close out 2007:

  • Today Arch Linux was added to the list of OS options. We’ve received several requests for Arch and it’s a good choice for power users.
  • The mobile version of SliceManager has also been updated, be sure to bookmark it for stats gathering and reboots via the road.
  • The bandwidth alerts are now emailed when you hit 80% of your Slice’s limit in order to provide lead time.
Posted by matt Filed in slicehost

8 Comments

  1. March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 PM smmathews

    Arch, awesome. I love how bleeding edge they keep their repositories. Switched over my slice the second I saw the option.

  2. March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 PM luis

    great to have options.

  3. March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 PM Lex

    80% bandwidth use notification, now THAT is useful. Great work, folks. Now I can run my streaming server with confidence and not worry about hitting my limit some month.

  4. March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 PM Tummblr

    Way to go! Arch Linux is awesome for people who like complete Customization almost like Gentoo but without the time-consuming compilations.

  5. March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 PM kamal

    Archlinux … ? I hate this. Now I have to decide whether to rebuild my slice using Arch. Ubuntu Dapper is running well but the temptation for Arch, ah.. cant’ stop it ;)

    Maybe I would just add new slice for testing, say for a month. Is it ok ?

  6. March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 PM Datafprce

    If it wasn’t ok, then the “Add A Slice” and “delete slice” buttons wouldn’t exist in slicemanager ;)

  7. March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 PM sandro.turriate@gmail.com

    +1 on wanting to rebuild my slice using Arch. Arch was a favorite of mine for a while but Debian/Ubuntu is so smooth right now that I probably won’t rebuild.

    Glad that Arch was added though =).

  8. March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 PM jsr

    Checked out the mobile SliceManager. Nice! However, you might want to add a quick line to make it look pretty on an iPhone.

    http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/UsingtheViewport/chapter_4_section_5.html

    Currently I have to zoom in a lot to get to the username input field. If you add the ‘viewport’ meta tag, it automatically zooms in for you.

    http://iphone.facebook.com/

    uses: <meta id=”viewport” name=”viewport” content=”width=320; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;”/>

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