Slicehost to Linode migration, finally.

3 Dec 11

Over the last two weekends I finally motivated myself enough to move away from Slicehost, which has been completely stale as a service for well over a year now (ever since they were acquired by Rackspace). They've been rock solid - my VPS has been up for 396 days and counting - but their prices no longer reflect the marketplace, and they do not support any new OS versions.

First impressions of Linode are all positive - $20 for 512MB vs $40 on SH, cheaper backups ($5 vs $10 on SH), great DNS management, good OS options (CentOS 6 compared to Centos 5.5 on SH), easy setup, extremely fast responses to support tickets and so forth.

That said, Slicehost's articles/tutorials are much better (I refer back to them all the time when setting up new servers).

Also, the slicedns2linode script was a signifcant timesaver for migrating all the DNS entries over to Linode, which could have been a nightmare.

Looking forward to the next 396 days on Linode (hopefully)!

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