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@seats I've been a Slicehost customer for 3 years. Was very happy with the service until bought by Rackspace. Currently looking to migrate my servers to somewhe

by geuis 14y ago

@seats I've been a Slicehost customer for 3 years. Was very happy with the service until bought by Rackspace. Currently looking to migrate my servers to somewhere else, blah blah. Any interest on your part in starting another VPS hosting company? I figure if you did it right once, you can do it again. You'd likely have a customer in me.

seats 14y ago
Thanks that's nice to hear. Not in the cards for me. Technically still under non-compete, but even if that weren't the case at this point I am connected to so many other hosting providers that I'd rather just support them in doing the right things and work on other stuff. Right now I run a startup accelerator and am spending my time as a full time seed stage investor. What's your beef with the Rackspace service right now? As far as 'big' providers, besides the obvious AWS and Rackpsace, you should also consider SoftLayer and Joyent, and depending on what you are doing the PaaS providers are all getting pretty solid now - Heroku, AppFog, DotCloud, GAE even Azure (node is a first class citizen on Azure now). If you want something that feels really VPS-y that is run by a Slicehost-style team, Linode is a definitely a solid option (mentioning them first since this is their thread). I also am a fan of DigitalOcean (they went through our accelerator and I've spent a lot of time with them), and 6sync is run by Mario Danic who was a super active early Slicehost community member.
- geuis 14y ago
  Thanks @seats. I was a Rackspace customer with via a previous company a few years ago and wasn't happy with their reliability and pricing. I'm leaning towards Linode because they offer the most similar Slicehost experience and have excellent pricing. I don't have personal experience with their reliability yet, but from my research its top notch.

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@seats I've been a Slicehost customer for 3 years. Was very happy with the service until bought by Rackspace. Currently looking to migrate my servers to somewhe

by geuis 14y ago

seats 14y ago
Thanks that's nice to hear. Not in the cards for me. Technically still under non-compete, but even if that weren't the case at this point I am connected to so many other hosting providers that I'd rather just support them in doing the right things and work on other stuff. Right now I run a startup accelerator and am spending my time as a full time seed stage investor. What's your beef with the Rackspace service right now? As far as 'big' providers, besides the obvious AWS and Rackpsace, you should also consider SoftLayer and Joyent, and depending on what you are doing the PaaS providers are all getting pretty solid now - Heroku, AppFog, DotCloud, GAE even Azure (node is a first class citizen on Azure now). If you want something that feels really VPS-y that is run by a Slicehost-style team, Linode is a definitely a solid option (mentioning them first since this is their thread). I also am a fan of DigitalOcean (they went through our accelerator and I've spent a lot of time with them), and 6sync is run by Mario Danic who was a super active early Slicehost community member.
- geuis 14y ago
  Thanks @seats. I was a Rackspace customer with via a previous company a few years ago and wasn't happy with their reliability and pricing. I'm leaning towards Linode because they offer the most similar Slicehost experience and have excellent pricing. I don't have personal experience with their reliability yet, but from my research its top notch.