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

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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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