On Sunday 16 December 2007 06:50:41 am Matt Rosin wrote: > 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.
Actually slicehost has cleared out their backlog, there's once again no wait. Minimum prepayment term is still 3 months and it doesn't look like they intend to change that, but if you cancel within a month (for example) they'll still refund you two. Larger prepayments get a discount, but that's probably not a big incentive if you're just trialing them :) Linode offers a bit more RAM and a higher bandwidth cap for the price, which is nice, while Slicehost gives you four virtual CPUs, more I/O allowance, and has a nifty backup system. Both have very responsible developers/admins. I've been running some things (including a couple Catalyst sites) on Slicehost now for over a year, and they've been good to me. No performance issues once I figured out how best to configure apache to save on memory. Linode certainly looks good too. I figure it's the kind of competition that benefits the customer. Andrew _______________________________________________ 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/