Comments on: Slicehost and Linode: Affordable and Reliable VPS Hosting

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By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:53:01 +0000

Interesting to look at the conversations over a year ago….

Looking at current opinions, Linode is better in performance. And their offerings are more powerful for same price.

VPS.net is good too, though again, their pricing is a bit on the higher side. A +ve I’ve noticed is that their affiliate commissions are better than Linode.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:28:10 +0000

I've come across your service before, fairly recently actually. It looks like an impressive service, though a bit pricier than Linode. I have given it some consideration though. I have to admit that I'm leaning towards Linode at the moment, but you never know, that my change before I'm ready to make the switch to a VPS.

Oh, and nice domain name!

By: Ditlev

Ditlev — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:05:52 +0000

we've launched a service at vps.net that we'd like to think fits right in there between the developer heavy slicehost/linode approach and the limited resources of a shared hosting account…let me know if you'd like to try it out.

By: thedrumr

thedrumr — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:44:35 +0000

I have to agree 100% with the title, mine was a simple new site http://thedrumr.com, slicehost and linode were my top choices for vps. eapps was my other choice but the bandwidth was too less for the $20 plan that I tried. I’m currently with linode, more value for the money.

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By: Hendry Lee

Hendry Lee — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:04:38 +0000

Like BlueHost, DreamHost has huge user base, so you will hear horror stories now and then.

But work with them! When I signed up a bit more than a year ago, the load of the server could shoot up to 70 and one of the support team told me there was one domain getting digg-ed. But it happened for a few days, so I demand to be moved to a server with lighter load.

And they did grant me that request. I’m a happy camper since then.When you took the coupon code, DreamHost offers one of the lowest hosting with good performance.

@Michael: For me, nothing is better than feeling in control of my sites and tune them to run faster. Besides VPS gives me a feeling that I own the entire server, although I’m not.

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:32:21 +0000

I would absolutely recommend Slicehost. Three friends of mine, all with high traffic (500k+ hits per month) have moved to Slicehost and love it. Besides, some of the biggest blogs (PSDTuts, Zenhabits etc.) are hosted on Slicehost and get dugg every week without even flinching.As for getting the server setup, there are some folks who do it for free – provided you use their affiliate code to sign up. They get a small commission, which is their earning for setting it up. One of my friends does it, and I’ll probably call him up when my traffic grows Hit me up on IM or mail me if you need me to put you through to him…

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:03:27 +0000

@Tam Asaro, I’ll keep that in mind. (Dang, it’s going to be hard to choose between Linode and Slicehost when I’m ready to switch.)

@Hendry, Thanks for the further info. I probably will need to read-up on that. I’ve never managed a server via shell before, though I have some *nix command line experience.

@Michael, I don’t mind the additional work too much. I’ve looked at Media Temple a bit, and they look like a good option, but they still do things like limit the number of subdomains, and things like that, right? Plus, I like the idea of having unfettered access to configure things. As for Dream Host… I’ve heard so many horror stories about them they’d have to be offering a lot better deal for me to even want to try them. Both Linode and Slicehost appear to be offering better value than DH. $20 for under 200MB of RAM ($15/mo+$5 “shared hosting fee”). And as you tweak the “Scale” slider it gets more expensive real fast.