September 17th, 2008
Bandwidth pooling for everyone
We have a feature for larger customers called bandwidth pooling. It means that the monthly bandwidth allowance is metered against the total bandwidth of a customer’s slices. For example: 4×1024slices = 4×400GB = 1.6TB total bandwidth. As people employ multiple slices and take advantage of private IPs for communication, it made sense to enable this across the board. Today we’re pleased to announce that bandwidth pooling is a standard feature and monthly bandwidth allotments are now equal to the total bandwidth across your slices.
September 17th, 2008 at 07:28 PM Luke
Very nice…you guys keep rockin’
September 17th, 2008 at 07:30 PM Francis
You have no idea how much this pleases me.
What you guys offer is pretty simple, and you do it well. You have reasonable default images and your vm’s are always snappy and as advertised. There are very few features I can think of that would improve your product and keep it simple. Bandwidth pooling is an amazing idea and makes your service even nicer to use.
I guess I’m just pleasantly surprised. Needless to say, thank you.
September 17th, 2008 at 07:36 PM Ryan Townsend
I currently only have one slice, but now this feature is available I won’t hesistate to use you for all my smaller clients sites.
It’s great to see you’re listening to feedback from customers! Much love!
September 17th, 2008 at 07:41 PM Julian Schrader
Very nice! I’m with you since one month now and everything’s been great so far :-)
September 17th, 2008 at 07:42 PM William
Me is very happy!!!
September 17th, 2008 at 08:04 PM ceejayoz
Wonderful!
September 17th, 2008 at 08:28 PM Lex
Wow, awesome!
I just have a personal server in my VPS right now, but it’s really nice to know that if I suddenly need to handle a ton of traffic, I won’t have to go looking for a new provider. You’ve just removed the last barrier to being able to scale to a whole lot of traffic without having to learn a new hosting provider.
September 17th, 2008 at 08:32 PM Josh Nesbitt
Nice work guys, keep it going!
September 17th, 2008 at 08:46 PM Jason Emerick
Even though I only have 1 slice currently, this is definitely an awesome feature!
Thanks and keep up the great work!
September 17th, 2008 at 09:20 PM Brady
Thanks a ton guys! I really appreciate this – we have a development server and a production server both with you guys, so this essentially doubles our available production bandwidth. Awesome!
September 18th, 2008 at 12:24 AM Walter
Yet another customer-friendly feature from Slicehost. We love you guys. :)
September 18th, 2008 at 01:48 AM WS
Great new feature.
September 18th, 2008 at 02:33 AM Kirby Turner
Awesome new feature. Thanks for adding it.
September 20th, 2008 at 08:10 AM Gustav
Another reason why we will continue to grow our business @ slicehost!
September 23rd, 2008 at 06:20 AM Kolmaspiste
Have used Slicehost for four days now, and have nothing but good to say. Currently owning only one 256mb slice, but as traffic is raising I have to increase my slice soon. Good to know I can grow as much as I can :)
September 24th, 2008 at 04:36 AM Tak Ooishi
Not that I needed another reason to stay with Slicehost, but I’m afraid you guys are now seriously stuck with me. Forever. It’s your own fault for being the best!
Cheers, you fellows really do rock.
T.
September 28th, 2008 at 08:04 AM Garry Tan
You guys are the best! WOW!
September 28th, 2008 at 06:47 PM Garett
awesome. just awesome.
September 30th, 2008 at 04:51 AM Gordon
VERY nice. Thank you very much.
October 2nd, 2008 at 04:33 PM John Rockefeller
Best hosting service, ever. This is just icing on the cake.
October 8th, 2008 at 08:02 AM atc
Slicehost = Scarlett Johansson
October 8th, 2008 at 04:28 PM MikeH
When you say “private IPs” do you mean that if we have 2 slices, and ifconfig both of them to 172.x, the traffic that may be transferred between the 2 is still counted? Or does this affect only ‘border crossing’ when my packets go out over the public IP?
Great service, just a bit odd on the wording! :)
October 9th, 2008 at 03:08 PM Michael.Terence
MikeH:
The bandwidth on private IPs is unmetered. More here:
http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2008/8/7/private-ips-for-your-slices
October 10th, 2008 at 07:27 PM Frank
This is a really bad idea, and I will tell you why. Because I am a liar, this is incredible. Thanks again for being the awesomer.
October 14th, 2008 at 03:57 AM Bruce Ge
I can’t expect better.
October 15th, 2008 at 03:10 PM Vince
Great feature, makes it more tempting to buy more slices…
October 17th, 2008 at 12:59 AM Kevin
This makes your service even better! Thanks much!
November 20th, 2008 at 01:15 PM cus
thank you, great services for me. I’m so happy!
December 17th, 2008 at 06:45 PM Car Lover
I though to upgrade my slice, but now I am going to buy new slice, btw you guys ROCK !!!
December 22nd, 2008 at 02:11 PM Christoph
Thx for enabling this invaluable feature. I can’t be more satisfied with your service!
December 29th, 2008 at 03:49 PM Ryan
After 2 weeks of research for a solid VPS solution, Slicehost came out on top in everyone of my debates. Just another reason why we have chosen your services for the future of our hosted applications. We will put your servers to the test and I have no doubt in my mind that I will sleep much easier at night!
When we launch we expect just from development communities alone thousands of hits within minutes; and we know the end users will be raving about how ‘snappy’ everything is :)
March 24th, 2009 at 07:21 AM Nick
Wow! Talk about overdelivering!
March 25th, 2009 at 05:10 PM Paul M
I hate to rain on your parade, but bandwidth IS A RATE, not an amount.
OK, technically you could say that 100GB/month is a bandwidth, but it’s not a useful one.
a 100GB a month usage might better be described as a data allowance or something!
April 24th, 2009 at 03:07 AM Hangman
Thank you very much for your awesome service!
June 17th, 2009 at 10:11 AM dr.xnlb
@Paul M.
I think we all get that the bandwidth doesn’t pool and rollover like minutes on cell plan. but it does mean that with the four slices i have online now are contributing to a 1400gb/month transfer limit and growing.