June 2nd, 2008

10k slices and more

Slicehost's 2 year anniversary is approaching and it's been a wild ride. We are proud of how much we've grown and the incredible community that has sprung up around our service. Recently we passed the 10,000 slice milestone and decided to use the opportunity to share some interesting metrics.

High level stats

Active Slices >10,000
Raw Storage >600TB
Active Customers >8,500
60% US, 40% International from 92 countries
16,500 domains hosted

SliceManager stats (last 6 months):

12,190 Slice rebuilds
293,370 Slice backups taken
2,697 Slice resizes performed
1,088 Slice root password resets
3,202 Support tickets answered
14,994 SliceManager requested reboots

Community stats:

Facebook group >500 members
Freenode IRC channel 2,239 unique nicks since inception
23,000 unique visitors per month to articles.slicehost.com
155,000 page views per month at articles.slicehost.com
11,140 forum comments
828 twitter followers

Posted by matt Filed in slicehost

15 Comments

  1. June 2nd, 2008 at 09:13 PM Justin Hernandez

    Wow congrats on 10,000 slices! I bet you guys never thought you popularity would explode this much. :) I’m happy to know that I’ve contributed to these stats.

  2. June 2nd, 2008 at 09:25 PM Gilbert

    Congrats guys!

  3. June 2nd, 2008 at 09:33 PM Manuel

    Great!! Congrats!

    Now, talking seriously, give us more storage space! we need it!

  4. June 2nd, 2008 at 10:06 PM loudestnoise

    Congrats on the accomplishment. I’m quite satisfied with my Slice so far.

  5. June 2nd, 2008 at 11:19 PM James

    Hey, that’s awesome. Congrats! Keep up the great work and service. I’m lovin’ it!

  6. June 2nd, 2008 at 11:39 PM Ricardo Dias Marques

    First of all, many congratulations Slicehost for reaching 10 000 slices ! :)

    Thanks for the stats that you provided in this blog post. I think they are very interesting.

    Talking about statistics: would it possible to publish the number of slices that were created for each distribution (“distro”)? It would be even better if you could distinguish between versions in each distribution. For example: 2000 slices created with Ubuntu 6.06, 4000 slices with Ubuntu 7.10… :)

    I seem to recall that you mentioned distribution “market share” in Slices in one of your podcasts (the famous “3-way Handshake” series), but I can’t recall in which one it was, and it’s a bit hard to do a Google Search in Podcasts content! ;-)

  7. June 3rd, 2008 at 01:31 PM Dave Doyle

    Wow. Nice to hear. I just joined up a few days ago. Loving the experience. Glad to be on board for your milestone.

  8. June 4th, 2008 at 05:33 AM Vladislav Chernyshov

    Slicehost is the best! Keep up the good work!

  9. June 4th, 2008 at 12:38 PM Ross

    Congrats slicehost team.

    Ross - http://www.hostdisciple.com

  10. June 5th, 2008 at 02:38 PM Stéphane Bortzmeyer

    I am a customer, not from the beginning, but almost, and I notice that I pay the same price for the same slice than 1.5 years ago.

    The general direction of the market is towards faster/larger computers and/or smaller prices. When I choosed Slicehost, there were few cheaper competitors. Now, things are different (in France, you can now get a dedicated physical machine for nine euros / month and a virtual one for six euros).

    Wouldn’t it make sense to allow users to get a larger slice for the same price after N months?

  11. June 8th, 2008 at 05:35 AM Tim

    +1 for lower prices

    Seems like linode.com and others are less expensive and provide more resources :(

    You guys are awesome, just hope you keep up with the competition.

  12. June 11th, 2008 at 06:50 AM Ram

    congrats! Slicehost is by far the best VPS service i ever came across

  13. June 14th, 2008 at 04:38 AM Pete Bishop

    I think it’s worth every cent – well done!

  14. June 19th, 2008 at 07:27 AM Stéphane Bortzmeyer

    Seems like linode.com and others are less expensive and provide more resources

    And Linode does exactly what I suggest (raising the capacities of the machine, to let faithful customers enjoy the benefits of the general progress of computers):

    http://blog.linode.com/2008/06/16/linode-5-year-anniversary-20-disk-increase/

    I’m not a customer of them, I cannot say if they are good or not, but at least they are not stuck to the initial prices/capacities.

  15. June 19th, 2008 at 09:07 AM PickledOnion

    Hi Stephane,

    I am sure when we get to our 5 year anniversary we will have some similar offers!

    Coming up to two years for us now.

    Many thanks.

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