[mrbad101]

Please note, I was reading on Slicehost's forums/blog the other day, and you can install a 32 bit OS.

Here is a link that should help:

http://wiki.slicehost.com/doku.php?id=installing_an_arbitrar...

So its not completely out of the question.

Hope this helps steer some people back to SH side.

[ntoshev]

It doesn't make sense to base your production system on a hack of your provider's platform. 64bit OS was the reason I ditched Slicehost too, although I knew about this hack.

[listic]

A hack? To the best of my knowledge, both providers allow users to install arbitrary Linux distributions. It's not against any rules, so I wouldn't consider this a hack.

[ntoshev]

It is not part of their recommended way to do things. They do not provide support and they may close this opportunity at any time, even involuntarily.

[davidw]

Go through all that when Linode (or others) lets me click a button to get the same thing? No thanks - it looks like a 'hack' to me. Sure, I don't mind running my own system, but imagine doing that every time I decide to provision a new one - yuck!