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		barkingcat on March 13, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rackspace & Drizzle: It's Time to Rethink Everythi... Slicehost and Rackspace are the same company, by the way. They share datacenters, and a lot of the support infrastructure.

yesimahuman on March 13, 2010 [–]

I know, I was only comparing the two services in terms of pricing. Slicehost is too expensive for a lot of needs (backend databases, load balanced app servers, etc) since these servers only ever communicate over the LAN thus not consuming billable bandwidth.

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