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All other things being equal (which I don't know for a fact), Linode is significantly cheaper than Slicehost, considering the differences in memory usage between x86 (32 bit) and x86_64:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode

I asked Slicehost and they say that because of the way they currently do backups, they can't guarantee that backups of slices larger than 2GB will get done in a reasonable amount of time

If you ask support, they'll tell you they've got some backup options in the works supposedly.