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by grey-area 3447 days ago
Another example is slicehost:

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2974-the-slicehost-story

http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/229402851/rackspace-clarifies-...

It always starts with good intentions and fine words about nothing changing and ends with an incredible journey.
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nocman 3447 days ago
Amen to that. I used slicehost for years and was totally happy with them. Then Rackspace bought them and killed them off.

Needless to say, Rackspace did NOT get me as a customer after that. I switched to another provider.

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cookiecaper 3447 days ago
I was a longtime Slicehost user and while Rackspace eventually phased them out, they were not competitive with the new crop of VPS providers anyway. I was paying $70/mo for my slice. I don't remember the specs, but when they went away, I switched to a Linode that was about half the cost. (Linode has now also been outmoded for my uses, and I just have Vultr and DigitalOcean servers (+ 1 dedicated server in a rack somewhere) now).
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