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by patio11 6198 days ago
Lets see. I have 3 slices, 2 of which are publicly accessible.

512 MB: Apache2 / PHP, serves a dozen websites last time I checked, most notably a forum that has a few thousand hits a day and my blog, which when it gets spiky goes up to X0,000 hits in a day.

256 MB (until recently): Bingo Card Creator, which is Nginx => 2x Mongrel.

I bumped the 256 up to 512 (a process that took me above 5 minutes and a restart) when I started developing the new version, so that I could fit a staging server on the same box. Currently it has about 6 Rails instances running on it at any given time (2x Mongrels for the live site, 2x for the staging, 2x for DelayedJob or consoles). After I release the new version I'm probably going to put the staging server on another box and reallocate the saved memory to more instances for the production site.
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listic 6198 days ago
Do they give you private IP's to connect non-publicly accessible nodes? (Linode does) Other way, you'd be using up your traffic limit on this.

How much traffic do your slices use?

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patio11 6198 days ago
I have never come anywhere close to my limit. I think the highest I've ever gotten was a bit over 100 GB a month from the sites, with another 50 GB through my (private) web proxy (I have a bad Amazon tv episodes habit). My limit is 500 GB at the moment, so I'm not too worried.
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robgough 6198 days ago
They do give you private IP's so that your "slices" can talk to each other - this traffic doesn't count against your bandwidth quota.

http://www.slicehost.com/questions/#private-ips

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