I've received a lot of questions lately about Slicehost and how the service works. If you want to know more, check out the "Getting started with Slicehost" screencast that I've created. It goes over the following steps:
- Signing up for a Slicehost account
- Provisioning a new slice
- Features and functions of the Slicemanager
- Setting up a LAMP stack on your new slice
The video is 53.2MB in size, and the total running time is 11 minutes and 39 seconds. It's in Quicktime format (H264 video with AAC audio), but it should play through VLC if you don't have Quicktime installed. It's being served through Cloud Files via the Limelight CDN.
Download the screencast here (53.2MB). (Right click and save to your computer for viewing later.)
The screencast was recorded with ScreenFlow and the post processing was done in iMovie.
Great help. I've already setup my website on a slice and I'm finding the combination of Howtoforge's Ubuntu Perfect Server and the 256M slice is proving to be quite agreeable for a few sites.
All that is needed is to make some minor modifications to better secure the server, like installing DenyHosts.
I'll take a look at the video later, looks useful.