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Ask HN: Slicehost vs Mosso Cloud Server?
Now that Slicehost is owned by Rackspace the pricing situation seems a little weird.
The cheapest slicehost slice is ~20 per month(1) while the cheapest mosso cloud server is ~10(2) -- this seems cannibalistic to slicehost. Why would anyone continue to use slicehost?
1) http://www.slicehost.com/
2) http://www.mosso.com/cloudservers_pricing.jsp
- reconbot 17y agoBandwidth is not included in Mosso's Cloud. I think if you were to max out on bandwidth slicehost is still a better offer.
- jm4 17y agoThe $10.95 Mosso plan doesn't include transfer and the $20 Slicehost includes a total of 100GB. If you use the calculator on the Mosso site to estimate the cost of the $10.95 server and 100GB of transfer (50GB in, 50GB out) it comes out to $25.95. It's not so cannibalistic anymore. This also doesn't appear to be an apples to apples comparison. Slicehost provides fixed virtual private servers and Mosso seems to be more similar to EC2.
- yourabi 17y agoAh that makes a lot more sense, I overlooked that.
- wmf 17y agoSlicehost provides fixed virtual private servers and Mosso seems to be more similar to EC2. Besides the pricing model I don't see any difference. A crucial difference between Slicehost/Mosso and EC2 IMO is that Slicehost/Mosso doesn't have "ephemeral" stuff that can go away at any time.
- mdasen 17y agoSlicehost's included transfer makes a huge difference. Take the 4GB level: Slicehost w/1600GB transfer == $250 Mosso w/1600GB transfer (assuming 75% out which is likely an under-estimate) == $470 Mosso w/1600GB transfer (100% in) == $303 So, it depends on how your application will work. Mosso has a lot of bandwidth charges that start to add up.
- megaman821 17y agoIt depends, I would pick Mosso to use as a staging or dev server, or to serve up a personal blog. If I was doing a site that got more traffic I would use a Slice instead.
- wmf 17y agoBecause of the bandwidth cost or some other reason?