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Misleading title: Slicehost accounts will be converted to Rackspace cloud accounts. They are killing the brand, not the product.

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In addition to killing the branding, they're removing all existing slicehost interfaces (control panel, api, etc), and migrating all users to rackspace boxes.

That's all of the slicehost product that's left for now. If that's not killing the product, I'm not sure what is.

Bummer. I love the Slicehost interface... so simple! I hope they retain all the linux tutorials on Slicehost, that's what made me join anywhere. The content in those is pure gold.

In addition to using those guides on my slice, I used them to help setup my friends under-desk server, my linode, and several EC2 instances. I love those guides.

It depends on how you look at it - at one point Slicehost was forked to become Rackspace Servers.

They're also forcing (at least) an IP address change on those of us in the STL datacenters, from what I've seen on the forum.

For me, this isn't a huge problem. But, if I was running a email-based service, or managed VPN connections to/from clients from my slices, I'd be seething.

Afaik, Rackspace cloud accounts are more expensive than Slicehost accounts. Have you seen or do you know of how this changes pricing?

Actually, I made the switch from Slicehost to Rackspace because it was cheaper. It's pay for what you eat pricing, so you don't get a free allotment of bandwidth, but it's around ~$11 for a 256 meg instance.

My biggest concern is that the Rackspace Cloud product doesn't seem as polished as Slicehost. Slicehost was a great service for newer users, with great documentation and help resources.

But bandwidth is expensive. That 256 slice had 150GB of b/w included, which brings the Rackspace Cloud cost to $37.95. It really adds up quick if you were using any serious percentage of your bandwidth allotment.

I'm not especially bothered personally as I had already decided to make the jump to Linode in coming months... this has just hastend my resolve.

Like others have said, the bandwidth is paid upfront with slicehost versus pay as you go with rackspace. If you want to try out an idea, I think paying $11/mo vs. $20/mo. for BW you might never use is a nice benefit.

Rackspace Cloud instances are cheaper than Slicehost. Slicehost's 256MB ram / 10GB storage instance will cost you $20/mo. The same provisioned through the Rackspace Cloud control panel costs $0.015/hour or ~$12/mo.

You pay for bandwidth separately. If you use all of your allotted 150GB in bandwidth from slicehost you are going to be out $37/month. If you use less than 51GB outgoing bw you are saving money.

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There were three posts with the same news in the "new" section with appropriate headlines all before this post. I think it is more a failing on those up-voting the most catchy headline.

I read the entire e-mail before posting it and my title is accurate. The brand is being killed as is the product because these are two different products with two different backends which the e-mail hints at.

You are free to disagree with my title but don't accuse me of things I do not do.

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