I moved a client (4 servers) from Slicehost to Rackspace a few months back and so far it's actually been less expensive. Slicehost gives you a bunch of bandwidth up-front, whereas Rackspace charges less for the servers and bandwidth is usage-based.
Slicehost 2GB server w/ 1200GB bandwidth: $130/mo Rackspace 2GB server: $88/mo + 1200GB bandwidth: $215/mo = $303/mo (yikes) In this case, the client only used about 800GB of bandwidth/mo across all servers so the overall cost went down a bit. Check your current bandwidth usage and play with the Rackspace calculator at http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/servers/pricing/ Hopefully this gives some cost perspective, though I definitely agree that migrating is a pain. James On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Ken Hudson <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm not sure how many of you use Slicehost like I do but I received an > email this morning informing me that they are going to "convert current > Slicehost accounts to Rackspace Cloud Servers accounts over the next year". > In other words, they're killing off Slicehost. In my opinion, Slicehost > has been just great (been a customer for at least 4 years, I think) and from > everything I hear Rackspace is going to me more expensive. Plus I get to do > a migration instead of doing actual productive work. > > Anyway, just thought I'd pass this along... > > Thanks, Ken > > > http://www.shareastronomy.com > @shareastronomy > > > > > > > > > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
