Slicehost provides an application programming interface to let you control your hosted servers (“slices”).  This API can do everything from creating a new slice, to restoring a slice from a backup, to deleting a slice, to managing the domain name resolution settings on your account.  (So when I bought orderingdisorder.com, I used the API to automatically add the DNS entries to my slicehost account so “the internet” would know where to find this site, rather than adding the entries manually.)

Anyway, my PHP interface class is just a PHP class that lets you conveniently access your Slicehost account from the convenience of a PHP script.  My last update added the ability to create, reimage, reboot, or rename slices.

If you find yourself needing the class, you can download it here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-sliceapi/

Or, you can grab it from the Subversion repository, if you’re into that sort of thing:

https://php-sliceapi.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/php-sliceapi/trunk