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At the moment we have 5 small Linode VPSes (1.5/1/1/768/768) for app/db/solr/redis/async-jobs and paying around $200/month.

I've been looking for alternatives, preferably hybrid dedicated/cloud with good RAM/IO for app/cache/db and cloud based storage. Rackspace seems to offer something like this, but at a higher price. Any other suggestions?

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Linode is one of the cheapest providers of VPSes that are mainstream. I think you will have a hard time finding something comparable. I track web hostign companies for my startup ( http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting ) and the only company that jumps to mind is RamNode. But I haven't collected enough data on them to say anything meaningful. They seem to be offering high ram + ssd drives which would match what you're after.

CloudSigma may be worth a try. You can tune CPU/RAM and HDD/SSD storage as you see fit, and they give you 7 days for free to test all the weird things you can come up with. It's based on KVM and you can install anything by uploading an ISO.

Full disclosure: crazy CloudSigma customer running FreeBSD with ZFS in the cloud :)

Note that Rackspace cloud (not sure about their managed services) do not include free bandwidth. It can be a killer if you rely on Linode's bundled bandwidth.

I migrated to Rackspace cloud, due to the Slicehost acquisition and the first month bill was hard to swallow.

We don't do cloud storage, but S3 works from anywhere of course. Uptano https://uptano.com

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