I started this same thread a few months ago and many people were kind enough to reply.
It seemed a decision between linode.com and slicehost.com. Slicehost sounds cool and very well may be cool, however it is newer, has a waiting list (not extremely long), and what got me was that they say no up front but then require up front just to get early on the list. By contrast I have watched linode for a long time, and I had an awesome chat with its owner caker, who periodically adds new resources to your account for free, and it seems they have more offerings, including upcoming HA failover across linodes it seems. Anyway both have neat looking communities and possibly slicehost has newer technology but it's a tossup to me, as linode also is not standing still. Finally they have multiple data centers including one at Huriccaine Electric which I also had watched for a while. Getting a linode at HE which is 50-100ms closer was also a big plus. Add to that a very personal vibe I got from caker, which decided me. My own decision was to start off with a single linode and also get a baby account on hostgator, which also was top in reviews. I got it for some family sites and to hold heavy content like film. Possibly catalyst might even work in their environment but I am planning on using the linode for that. Probably the linode will have to be upgraded with memory. I have not had time to play with it yet so I can't report on the result, but so far it looks nice and inexpensive. Since I joined in fact I have gotten a free upgrade already. Granted VPS companies have to keep up with the market, I left my old one due to incompetence and overcharging. Possibly slicehost may have difficulty keeping up but I wish them all luck and wouldn't mind getting a slice too some time to try out. Both linode and slicehost give you a choice of distros and root access which should make catalyst installation easy. Perhaps someone else can give you their experience but first you might want to search the archive. Matt R. _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/