[Catalyst] Web hosting?

[Andrew Rodland]

On Sunday 16 December 2007 06:50:41 am Matt Rosin wrote:
> I started this same thread a few months ago and many people were kind
> enough to reply.
>
> It seemed a decision between linode.com and slicehost.com.
>
> Slicehost sounds cool and very well may be cool, however it is newer,
> has a waiting list (not extremely long), and what got me was that they
> say no up front but then require up front just to get early on the
> list.

Actually slicehost has cleared out their backlog, there's once again no wait. 
Minimum prepayment term is still 3 months and it doesn't look like they 
intend to change that, but if you cancel within a month (for example) they'll 
still refund you two. Larger prepayments get a discount, but that's probably 
not a big incentive if you're just trialing them :)

Linode offers a bit more RAM and a higher bandwidth cap for the price, which 
is nice, while Slicehost gives you four virtual CPUs, more I/O allowance, and 
has a nifty backup system. Both have very responsible developers/admins.

I've been running some things (including a couple Catalyst sites) on Slicehost 
now for over a year, and they've been good to me. No performance issues once 
I figured out how best to configure apache to save on memory. Linode 
certainly looks good too. I figure it's the kind of competition that benefits 
the customer.

Andrew