I signed up with Slicehost a few months ago. It was my first experience with VPS hosting and Unix. As a beginner, Slicehost was really great. The control panel

I signed up with Slicehost a few months ago. It was my first experience with VPS hosting and Unix. As a beginner, Slicehost was really great. The control panel is really straight forward and easy to use, their support is quick and helpful, and their how-to articles are really great for beginners. To quickly compare the how-to's in a similar category: http://articles.slicehost.com/ubuntu-hardy http://articles.slicehost.com/ubuntu-hardy vs http://library.linode.com/lamp-guides/ http://library.linode.com/lamp-guides/ So they both have articles for the absolute beginners, but it still seems like Linode slightly favors the more intermediate to advanced users in their how-to's. Purely subjective, but Slicehost's seem a bit easier to read / follow. That being said, this article was incredibly interesting. Now that I have a bit more experience with VPS's and Unix, I am very tempted to head over to Linode. I am still developing my web app on Slicehost but I have not seen any performance problems since I have very little traffic. I am now considering setting up the production server over at Linode when I'm ready to go live. Thanks for the great article.