After conducting the tests outlined here (http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison) I switche

After conducting the tests outlined here (http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison) I switched from Slicehost to Linode. Apart from two network outages in their Newark datacenter I've been very happy with the switch.