On to Linode
Way back in the far distance of the past, I was looking for a linux-based VPS provider. I evaluated several, and went with slicehost instead of linode, because slicehost had slightly better service, and had already moved to xen (as opposed to UML). Several years ago, slicehost was bought by rackspace. They swore it would stay the same, and it did. I was happy.
Then, earlier this year, they announced that slices would be moved to the rackspace cloud, rather than the dedicated xen hosts. I don’t particularly want a cloud hosted service, and I want to know what technology is running my hosts, and I want to support companies that support FOSS, so I’m moving on. My slice was just closed, and my VPS is now completely migrated to linode. Hopefully, no one noticed a thing.
That said, I have slightly better service now for the same price, so it’s a win for me.
