Comments on: Slicehost vs Linode

By: etbe

etbe — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:33:16 +0000

Shot: Nice prices, but they omit any details of the hardware. I’m guessing that it’s white-box and I wonder whether it even has ECC RAM.

Personally I consider Dell (which seems to comprise the bulk of Rackspace offerings) as the minimum hardware. I would only be inclined to recommend lesser hardware if it was on a virtual server (which has migration on hardware failure managed by someone else and included in the price).

Thomas: I will contact you.

By: Shot

Shot — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:15:04 +0000

You might want to consider ServerPronto – $30/month for a non-virtual server is nice. When I researched them two years ago they did seem to have quite a few dissatisfied customers, so do google them first, but I did risk it and haven’t have any problems with them.

By: Thomas Asaro

Thomas Asaro — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:21:33 +0000

Hey Russel, thanks for mentioning us. I just wanted to point out that we do offer custom Linode plans, all the way up to one Linode on a host. We also have a mass storage product in development. Feel free to get in touch with us if you have any questions.

By: Physical vs Virtual Servers | etbe - Russell Coker

Physical vs Virtual Servers | etbe - Russell Coker — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:00:21 +0000

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By: etbe

etbe — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:51:00 +0000

Michael: That sounds really interesting. But unless “early next year” means “starting on the first of January” it’ll probably be too late for my client.

Anon: Good points. I’ll write some more blog posts about this in the near future.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:13:53 +0000

etbe: I don’t really see the difference between a dedicated server and a virtual server taking up all the shares available on a single physical machine, other than that the virtual server will prove easier to manage. Similarly, I don’t really see the difference between having “your own” NetApp filer and having an arbitrary amount of disk spread across multiple disk devices and attached to arbitrary servers. Sure, virtualization adds a slight overhead, but Xen and other paravirtualized solutions have near-zero I/O overhead. Why sacrifice the easy manageability of virtualization?