Rackspace acquire Slicehost • Hacker News Board

Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 6:33 PM UTC

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Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost

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Post by rob » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 6:35 PM UTC

Let's hope they don't do to Slicehost what they did to Webmail.us after acquiring them. If they do, you can expect huge increases in prices and a focus more on corporate/"big" clients.

Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost

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Post by cstejerean » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 6:40 PM UTC

utnick wrote: post #9

Question 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?

I think slicehost is definitely close to EC2 in that you can programmatically bring nodes up and down so you can build a flexible infrastructure.

Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost

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Post by bisceglie » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 6:40 PM UTC

unalone wrote: post #5

rantfoil wrote: post #2

AND 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.

that would be useful if this article was about Rackhost.

Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost

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Post by cstejerean » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 6:42 PM UTC

Now I'm just waiting for GitHub to be acquired by SourceForge so another one of the companies I love doing business with can fall in the hands of one I'm trying to avoid like the plague.

Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost

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Post by wmf » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 6:45 PM UTC

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It's right here, scroll down: https://manage.slicehost.com/customers/new

This is the simplest order form I have ever seen; it's amazing.

Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost

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Post by cstejerean » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 6:46 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #11

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Probably because they have incredible support, an amazingly simple interface and programmatic access. They've obviously built a great reputation among developers.

Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost

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Post by pxlpshr » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 6:55 PM UTC

pierrefar wrote: post #3

I 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.

Just got back from the Rackspace Cloud event in Austin and was pleasantly surprised to say the least. Lanham (CEO) came by and talked with us at length... very genuine about delivering a fanatical experience for Mosso, and it's very evident to me that they're putting a lot of beef behind that statement. Looking forward to migrating to Mosso soon...

Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost

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Post by 0x44 » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 7:00 PM UTC

rob wrote: post #12

Let's hope they don't do to Slicehost what they did to Webmail.us after acquiring them. If they do, you can expect huge increases in prices and a focus more on corporate/"big" clients.

  you can expect huge increases in prices[...]

We cut the prices of our 2GB and larger slice offerings, along with announcing IP failover, and removing the mandatory 3-month prepayment on signup.

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Oh, and cause we keep forgetting to announce it. If you have private IP addresses on any of your slices, new slices will automatically get built with a private IP.

Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost

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Post by nailer » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 7:08 PM UTC

bisceglie wrote: post #14

unalone wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

that would be useful if this article was about Rackhost.

So you're point is that it's useful? No need to post, you can just moderate unalone up.