On: DHH addresses Dreamhost's criticism of Rails

[davidw]

Does slicehost have that Amazon crap where on any given day, you might open the box and find that the cat is dead, or do you get your instance back even if something happens to it?

[mechanical_fish → davidw]

+1, hilarious cat metaphor

And, yes, the disk space and the IP, and apparently the percentage of CPU that you get, are all static. Very nice service, although I haven't automated my downtime monitoring so I can't speak to that.

[nickb → davidw]

No. Disk associated with your slice has persistent disk space. You also get a static IP.