Rackspace acquire Slicehost
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Rackspace acquire Slicehost
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Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#2AND they rolled out 8 GB and 15.5GB slices. AWESOME.
AND Rackspace also bought Jungledisk.
Rackspace is suddenly a whole lot more compelling.
Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#3I just hope Rackspace doesn't mess up slicehost to make it as "good" as mosso. I tried mosso before running away to slicehost.
Fingers crossed because moving sites ain't fun.
Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#4Awesome, but I hope they don't change pricing too much.
edit: Looks like they will be under the Mosso line? http://www.mosso.com/cloudservers.jsp
Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#5AND they rolled out 8 GB and 15.5GB slices. AWESOME. AND Rackspace also bought Jungledisk. Rackspace is suddenly a whole lot more compelling.
I've heard really terrible things about Rackspace from quite a few people. I'm really hoping they don't mess up the people they've bought.
Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#6Very well deserved. Congrats Slicehost!
Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#7AND they rolled out 8 GB and 15.5GB slices. AWESOME. AND Rackspace also bought Jungledisk. Rackspace is suddenly a whole lot more compelling.
I've heard really terrible things about Rackspace from quite a few people. I'm really hoping they don't mess up the people they've bought.
I've been on 2 dedicated servers with Rackspace for a year now and have no complaints, there service has been very good thus far and their rates were very competitive.
Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#8The great thing about Slicehost was the size. They were big enough to be reliable but small enough to give a shit when you had a question on #slicehost on freenode.
PickledOnion's posts on the Slicehost articles page were top notch. I hope the quality continues.
It got to the point that I'd only recommend Slicehost, after a few bad experiences with media temple and the like.
DON'T FUCK IT UP, RACKSPACE.
Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#9Question about terminology:
Is a slicehost slice considered 'cloud computing'?
Scoble and others are comparing slicehost to EC2 and amzn web services, but doesn't slicehost compete more with traditional dedicated hosting and other vps providers?
Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#10On a business note, congratulations. On a personal note I'm not looking forward to this acquisition. For one I like the current price model, which is very reasonable. Rackspace is extraordinarily expensive. In my experience the customer service from the small slice host team is fantastic. I usually send a support email and receive a response within an hour. Hopefully we dont end up with account managers now.