Why is Linode better than Slicehost? I looked around, and Slicehost seemed to be nearly comparable to Linode.

One thing that had me concerned about Slicehost was that they got bought out by RackSpace. When a large corporation buys out a small company, they tend to **** things up.

Are there any plans for Linode to be acquired?

That thought depresses the hell out of me.

This comparison is very recent:

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

James

I read that already (via Google). There was an interesting bit. The article's author chose Slicehost, but most of the commenters had picked Linode.

I have found that server companies are like banks, when they get bought out by a large national firm, the service and customer support go to the devil and the prices go up.

I hope Linode is an independent for a very long time.

Jeff

If you read the article, he made his choice before he knew about Linode. I believe he has an account at Linode since he is promoting a referral code on the page. . .

The complete ignorance about userland vs kernels leads me to believe this fellow doesn't really know what he's talking about in this department. I would be very cautious about putting any weight on the analysis presented.

Linode is the best, for sure. The control panel is phenomenal, we can migrate and mix & match datacenters, the forums are some of the best on the Web, and the owner is easily accessible.

I came from SH and I must say the community is much more active here. However, more importantly, I noticed since rackspace acquired slicehost, things haven't been the same. Granted I understand the owners have less time to chime in on the forums but it was the personal touch that makes/made Slicehost one of the best service provider. Nowadays, replies we made in the forums would go unanswered by the very people who made themselves available almost everyday a couple of months prior to being bought out.

With that said, I left due to the resources. For the same price, I would get more resources from Linode than I would from Slicehost. I have nothing but good things to say about them but for now, I'm a Linode customer. I admit, I signed up once before but now I'm back. I noticed my "slice," oops, I meant Linode account is much quicker.

I'm a current Slicehost customer seriously considering moving to Linode primarily because Linode offers BOTH i386 and x86_64. Slicehost is x86_64 only.

Thanks exactly the reason I switched over last week. I had 4 Slices (64bit of course) at one time at SH and am able to do the same here on 2 Linodes (on 32bit) for half the price.

I now keep 1 slice open so my DNS stays active at SH (too lazy to do DNS switches again), but all my other stuff is moved here and I LOVE it so far.

I sign up with both to test and stayed here.

- More Space
- More RAM
- More Bandwidth
- Choice of datacenter (I'm European and Newark is around the corner)
- Choice of 86_64 and x86_64 (Am big weight in my decision)

The one thing SH have that I like is the "Articles" section that, for newbie like me, is a huge help!

I've used linode a few years ago (2003) but for testing propose and I just love the idea.
They are like "Porto Wine"! The older, the better

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I couldn't see that happening... Someone could answer today "not in the foreseeable future", but tomorrow get an offer from.... lets say HE.net... for a really lucrative sum. That wasn't there when they said foreseeable, but its there now, and they look like they are going back on their word (I'm sure you know how the internet works by now).

What's the difference between i386 and x86_64? (I'm a relative newbie.)

Is there any reason to not pick the 64 bit OS?