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I've been a happy Slicehost customer for a long time, but I've heard good things about Linode and liked using them well enough during Rails Rumble... This pric

I've been a happy Slicehost customer for a long time, but I've heard good things about Linode and liked using them well enough during Rails Rumble... This price difference is pretty tempting. Does anyone that's made the switch from Slicehost to Linode care to tell us about their experience?

dcreemer 16y ago
Not much to tell -- I switched because of price, and have been very happy. Good support, good community, nice docs (e.g. for things like upgrading OS images).
akadien 16y ago
I did. Honestly, there was not much of a difference in service for me. Both services are top-notch.
davidw 16y ago
I wrote a fairly well-received article about my switch. Since I switched, I have been happy with Linode.
- jules 16y ago
  Link?
  - davidw 16y ago
    I actually avoided putting it because I don't want to spam it around too much, but hey, I'm happy to: http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode
siculars 16y ago
Both Slicehost and Linode have top notch service. I switched because of price/ram and 32bit support. I found that the overhead on a 64bit machine on low ram instances is just not worth it for the kind of stuff I'm doing now.
- wrs 16y ago
  FYI: Slicehost has 32-bit images now.
jbester 16y ago
I've tried slicehost, linode, and mosso (now rackspace - cloud servers) they were all pretty similar. I think the new linode pricing now matches the old mosso pricing.
- uggedal 16y ago
  It matches the old Mosso prices minus bandwith. If you use a considerable amount of bandwidth Linode will be more cost effective.
  - jread 16y ago
    Not only that, but Linode doesn't cap bandwidth based on node size. I've been able to get up to almost 200 Mb/s out of a Linode 360 whereas the smallest slice (256) is capped at 10 Mb/s
uggedal 16y ago
After conducting the tests outlined here (http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison) I switched from Slicehost to Linode. Apart from two network outages in their Newark datacenter I've been very happy with the switch.
avar 16y ago
I moved from Slicehost to prgmr to Linode. I like Linode the best of the three.

dcreemer 16y ago

Not much to tell -- I switched because of price, and have been very happy. Good support, good community, nice docs (e.g. for things like upgrading OS images).

akadien 16y ago

I did. Honestly, there was not much of a difference in service for me. Both services are top-notch.

davidw 16y ago

I wrote a fairly well-received article about my switch. Since I switched, I have been happy with Linode.

jules 16y ago
Link?
- davidw 16y ago
  I actually avoided putting it because I don't want to spam it around too much, but hey, I'm happy to: http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode

siculars 16y ago

Both Slicehost and Linode have top notch service. I switched because of price/ram and 32bit support. I found that the overhead on a 64bit machine on low ram instances is just not worth it for the kind of stuff I'm doing now.

wrs 16y ago
FYI: Slicehost has 32-bit images now.

jbester 16y ago

I've tried slicehost, linode, and mosso (now rackspace - cloud servers) they were all pretty similar. I think the new linode pricing now matches the old mosso pricing.

uggedal 16y ago
It matches the old Mosso prices minus bandwith. If you use a considerable amount of bandwidth Linode will be more cost effective.
- jread 16y ago
  Not only that, but Linode doesn't cap bandwidth based on node size. I've been able to get up to almost 200 Mb/s out of a Linode 360 whereas the smallest slice (256) is capped at 10 Mb/s

uggedal 16y ago

After conducting the tests outlined here (http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison) I switched from Slicehost to Linode. Apart from two network outages in their Newark datacenter I've been very happy with the switch.

avar 16y ago

I moved from Slicehost to prgmr to Linode. I like Linode the best of the three.