April 3rd, 2009

RHEL for your Slice

Today we’re pleased to announce Red Hat Enterprise Linux as an option for Slicehosters! We strive to offer all major distributions and RHEL was a popular request, but it was tricky to implement due to the the virtual nature of slices. Rackspace and Red Hat hammered things out and now you can get RHEL for $36/month plus the cost of your slice. It’s a great solution for deploying applications that support the RHEL stack on your slice and for our business customers that have standardized on the Red Hat platform. We hope this makes life easier for our Red Hat loving Slicehosters, please get in touch with any comments/questions. Enjoy!

Posted by matt Filed in slicehost

16 Comments

  1. April 3rd, 2009 at 01:48 PM linuxcrypt

    shweet :) That is pretty awesome.

  2. April 3rd, 2009 at 01:54 PM ChrisBray

    Excellent news!

    I do however hope this doesn’t signal the disappearance of CentOS?

  3. April 3rd, 2009 at 02:05 PM John

    I’m wondering if there are any plans to add FreeBSD as a distro option. Personally I would love that.

  4. April 3rd, 2009 at 02:15 PM slicematt

    Chris: not at all.

    John: lots of requests, definitely something we’d like to do.

  5. April 3rd, 2009 at 02:49 PM Ed Marshall

    Since we’re talking about new default slices… :) Have you given any thought to 32-bit userspace options out of the box for folks just running light-weight webapps? 256MB slice owners would benefit significantly from the reduced memory usage, and it’s been talked about a bit in the past on the forums.

    Back on topic: Good to see another option, especially a “supported” option; that should make a few suits happier. :) I’m guessing this comes with an RHN account and the usual support channels? Judging by the pricing, I’d guess this is a basic subscription?

    Here’s a link folks will want to read, if they’ve never dealt with Red Hat’s commercial offering before, which gives an idea of the support options available: https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/server/

  6. April 3rd, 2009 at 03:03 PM Minh Nguyen

    Very awesome! Thank you!

  7. April 3rd, 2009 at 03:03 PM Jordan

    And what about real distros/OS ? Like freebsd ? :(

  8. April 3rd, 2009 at 03:17 PM Tim

    Does the RHEL come with:

    - Basic (web support), - Standard (12×5 phone support), or - Premium (24×7 phone support)

    subscription service?

    https://www.redhat.com/wapps/store/catalog.html

  9. April 3rd, 2009 at 03:47 PM Greg

    Awesome news!

    Great references here and at the RedHat Knowledgebase

    http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/en

  10. April 3rd, 2009 at 04:09 PM Joey

    This is great news! I will be sticking with CentOS myself for now, but this is definitely good to see as an option.

    Thanks for all the hard work!

  11. April 3rd, 2009 at 04:48 PM Mark Turner

    Tim: Based on the $36/month price I have to assume its the basic level.

  12. April 3rd, 2009 at 05:13 PM jason

    Mark,

    Correct, this is for RHEL basic (as opposed to advanced)

  13. April 5th, 2009 at 01:40 PM Osku Tervonen

    Interesting. I’ll add my voice to the FreeBSD requests :)

  14. April 10th, 2009 at 05:45 PM IvanOntarioPharmacy

    It’s a nice option. Hopefully Slicehost will be able to offer some of the other supported linux distros in the future as well. One day we’re hoping to be big enough to warrant some of the $$$ support options because they’ll be worth the money :)

  15. April 11th, 2009 at 06:10 AM Austin

    I’d love FreeBSD too.

  16. April 14th, 2009 at 03:33 PM Yusuf Goolamabbas

    Would love to have OpenBSD (purely for the ability to run pf) in front of other slices

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