I like Linode FWIW. Bandwidth pooling, good API, good resources, mostly-idle (hand-waving) quad-cores, 5 data centers, a very responsive IRC channel and forums, ability to grow/resize a linode at any time, etc.
the CPU advantage linode has over myself and (I believe) slicehost is that linode is using QPI xeons (Nehalams, 55xx chips) which are significantly better than the opterons the rest of us use for certain workloads (for other workloads, though, they are about the same)
Out of curiosity (I'm considering cloning the API slicehost set out for others to clone) how does the linode API compare to the slicehost API?
I am sorry but I am not familiar with the Slicehost API.
Since no one asked, I haven't really truly considered Slicehost an option for my projects. When I started researching the various options, Linode looked 2nd best by the numbers for VPS. prgmr.com looks the best but I am not sure I'd bet the farm on such a tiny operation. Slicehost is of course similar to Linode but it seems Linode gives you more bang for your buck and has nothing to do with Rackspace which in my limited foray into this hosting world seems like a good thing (but what do I know?).
well, personally, I think betting the farm on any single external service provider is a really bad idea, but then, like you said, I'm not really in a position to have people bet their farm on me so it's kinda self-serving to say that.
For my education, how much of your hesitation is that it's a tiny operation, and how much of it is that the prgmr.com tools for creating/resizing are non-existent?
This is just my $0.02. Everything I've heard about prgmr has been positive. For me, it was that it was a tiny operation. I've been burned by this myself for consulting gigs ironically enough.
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I like Linode FWIW. Bandwidth pooling, good API, good resources, mostly-idle (hand-waving) quad-cores, 5 data centers, a very responsive IRC channel and forums, ability to grow/resize a linode at any time, etc.