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This must be in response to Rackspace Cloud offering free incoming data due to their forced migration of Slicehost's customers. Rackspace Cloud has a bit of a
by ryan-allen 15y ago
This must be in response to Rackspace Cloud offering free incoming data due to their forced migration of Slicehost's customers.
Rackspace Cloud has a bit of a different audience to Slicehost's existing customers (I'm one of them).
If I were in Linode's position, I'd be offering migration coupons to existing Slicehost customers as an incentive to move to them instead. It's an opportunity wide open.
The way Slicehost has been communicating with their customers recently regarding the forced migration has been enough incentive. It's almost like Rackspace don't want the business the way they've been conducting themselves.
- ben1040 15y agoSeriously, this forced march from Slicehost to Rackspace Cloud has been an absolute trainwreck and I've been meaning to move all my services away to Linode as soon as I can find the time. Maybe during this long weekend.
- wiredfool 15y agoI've got a slicehost machine out there, and their communication with the cutover to rackspace has been awful. I'm still not sure if it's going to be mostly transparent, needs dns coordination, or if I'm going to have to rebuild my vm on the cloudwhatever. To be fair, it's not a common configuration (debian lenny/32bit,384mb), but everything I see just makes me think that it's going to be more of a pain than I want to have to deal with. Linode looks good, are there any red flags to worry about?
- dillona 15y ago> Linode looks good, are there any red flags to worry about? Not that I can think of. Linode is pretty great if you can deal with the lack of disk space