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Rackspace acquire Slicehost
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Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#22Awesome, 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
nice find, but i'm wondering the difference between this and cloud sites
Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#23Earlier 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.
Whoops, sorry. Changed. I don't know if there IS such a thing as "Rackhost."
Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#24Let'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. [edit] 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.
That is good news too! Congrats to you guys, I've been nothing but impressed with slicehost and can't wait to bring you more business!
Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#25Question 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.
Exactly. Their API for me is the distinguishing factor that means I can build SaaS-based offerings on top of them, and at a more affordable rate than EC2 as well. You don't necessarily need the horsepower of a full 24x7 EC2 instance, and a basic $20/mo slice can do a lot.
Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#26Earlier 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.
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.
Slicehost puts their rates where everyone can see them. I can't find them with a quick look on Rackspace.
What's "competitive"?
Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#27Now 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.
Gah! Don't give them any ideas!!
Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#28I 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...
I was also suprised by how bad mosso was when I tried it a few months ago. Slicehost is such a great breath of fresh air compared to it.
Case in point: mosso's control panel rarely worked. Not once did I manage to see a list of my databases. But look at slicehost's control panel. It is by far the best I've seen, and believe me I've seen many.
So for now, color me skeptical.
Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#29It seems that Rackspace is going to turn Slicehost into "Mosso Cloud Servers": http://cloud.rackspace.com/cloudservers.jsp
If you read "Included with Every Cloud Server" it reads just like the Slicehost homepage including this gem: "Slicehost management portal for reboots and software installs".
I'm wondering whether Rackspace will keep around the Slicehost brand (ala HP/Compaq) or just put everything under the Mosso brand. I am excited for the possibility of an S3-like storage system under the same roof as Slicehost. Maybe Amazon will start thinking of making lower-powered EC2 instances to compete with Mosso?
Re: Rackspace acquire Slicehost
#30Let'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. [edit] 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.
Any chance you could double the storage limits for the smaller slices?