[trevorturk]

I've been a happy Slicehost customer for a long time, but I've heard good things about Linode and liked using them well enough during Rails Rumble...

This price difference is pretty tempting. Does anyone that's made the switch from Slicehost to Linode care to tell us about their experience?

[uggedal]

After conducting the tests outlined here (http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison) I switched from Slicehost to Linode. Apart from two network outages in their Newark datacenter I've been very happy with the switch.

[avar]

I moved from Slicehost to prgmr to Linode. I like Linode the best of the three.

[davidw]

I wrote a fairly well-received article about my switch. Since I switched, I have been happy with Linode.

[jules]

Link?

[davidw]

I actually avoided putting it because I don't want to spam it around too much, but hey, I'm happy to:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode

[siculars]

Both Slicehost and Linode have top notch service. I switched because of price/ram and 32bit support. I found that the overhead on a 64bit machine on low ram instances is just not worth it for the kind of stuff I'm doing now.

[wrs]

FYI: Slicehost has 32-bit images now.

[jbester]

I've tried slicehost, linode, and mosso (now rackspace - cloud servers) they were all pretty similar. I think the new linode pricing now matches the old mosso pricing.

[uggedal]

It matches the old Mosso prices minus bandwith. If you use a considerable amount of bandwidth Linode will be more cost effective.

[jread]

Not only that, but Linode doesn't cap bandwidth based on node size. I've been able to get up to almost 200 Mb/s out of a Linode 360 whereas the smallest slice (256) is capped at 10 Mb/s

[dcreemer]

Not much to tell -- I switched because of price, and have been very happy. Good support, good community, nice docs (e.g. for things like upgrading OS images).

[akadien]

I did. Honestly, there was not much of a difference in service for me. Both services are top-notch.