Comments on: Rackspace Acquires JungleDisk, Slicehost To Take On Amazon Web Services

By: rehanna

rehanna — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:37:44 +0000

I’m not even sure why people are describing SliceHost as a direct competitor of Amazon’s. If anything, SliceHost is competing with the other dozens of VPS providers out there who offer exactly the same thing (a ’slice’ of a dedicated server is hardly something exclusive to SliceHost). rapidshare file search

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By: jamesanderson

jamesanderson — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:54:30 +0000

EC2 essentially offers CPU time in “the cloud” allowing you to start and stop VPS instances to meet demand. This is not best suited to web hosting due to the volatile storage.

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Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:12:50 +0000

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Even in a drought, many “Clouds” can form « Enterprise.next — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:38:36 +0000

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Rackspace Acquires JungleDisk, Slicehost To Take On Amazon « World News — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:36:21 +0000

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By: web

web — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:52:22 +0000

Wow they can now compete for business in the cloud … that is non-existent.

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Ming Yeow — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:01:43 +0000

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925 HTML » Blog Archive » Don’t Sell Your Small Giant — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:28:54 +0000

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By: Xenable

Xenable — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:15:39 +0000

I believe that is exactly what slicehost and Gandi.net offer, Xen hosting on a high availability cloud infrastructure, which is exactly why they are more interesting than the VPS crowd who all use Virtuozzo (which with the way they pack ’shells’ onto boxes is pretty much like shared hosting with more lower level control). That’s why they’re interesting to buy, the technology is better.

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Cloud News from Amazon and Rackspace « SmoothSpan Blog — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:07:58 +0000

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By: aitor

aitor — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:40:54 +0000

Most of you haven’t understand anything.

Slicehost is not a competitor of Amazon EC2. Slicehost is just a VPS provider (there are thousands of them) with a 2.0 feeling, nothing more. You can learn what a VPS is on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikip..._private_server

The reason to buy Slicehost are that they use Xen (most VPS providers use Parallel’s Virtuozzo technology) and the huge growth they have had.

In the other hand EC2 is an hight availability VPS provider, which means that all infraestructure is virtualized (storage is on a different server), redundant (if the server hosting your VPS goes down, your VPS won’t go down) and are using load balancers.

By: Xenable

Xenable — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:56:45 +0000

Lots of companies are starting to do this, a good one in Europe is Gandi, http://www.gandi.net/hosting/. Slicehost/Gandi are definitely different from EC2 at the moment (e.g. you don’t duplicate VPS servers), but I suspect they both will head that way more in the future. They also come from a reliability/paid service background rather than Amazon who haven’t been able to guarantee SLAs, so I’d rather go with one of these guys who are used to hosting business critical systems for customers.

By: treadmillfactory

treadmillfactory — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:59:13 +0000

nice

By: Linode vs Slicehost

Linode vs Slicehost — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:06:33 +0000

One very large advantage: they were good enough for Rackspace to acquire – Linode wasn’t.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:48:48 +0000

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Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:20:11 +0000

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By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:07:31 +0000

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Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:25:40 +0000

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By: Cloud vs. VPS

Cloud vs. VPS — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:22:20 +0000

What differentiates Amazon’s EC2 from a VPS?

Two things:

- Rapid provisioning accessible via API
- Utility billing model

That’s all folks. There’s no magic involved here.

EC2 is using Xen just like all the others. API access can be bolted on if it doesn’t exist already. With some development efforts layered on top of the service they just acquired, they then have product that competes directly with EC2.

What’s missing here is some sort of EBS alternative. If they get that in place then it’s game on.

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建站 * 必咨 » Blog Archive » 主机空间介绍 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:26:47 +0000

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By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:14:34 +0000

You need to revisit the EC2 options – you can now get persistent storage (Elastic Block Store)

By: Richard Cunningham

Richard Cunningham — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:11:22 +0000

Linode does seem to be a very close competitor to slicehost and linode are fair amount cheaper. Linode doesn’t have a backup option like slicehost does though.

(I’m a slicehost user)

By: Suresh

Suresh — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:37:07 +0000

I am a pro slicehost user for quite a few years…I always love their service and I hope nothing is gonna affected with this acquistion…