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Ask HN: Slicehost vs Mosso Cloud Server?

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Now that Slicehost is owned by Rackspace the pricing situation seems a little weird.

The cheapest slicehost slice is ~20 per month(1) while the cheapest mosso cloud server is ~10(2) -- this seems cannibalistic to slicehost. Why would anyone continue to use slicehost?

1) http://www.slicehost.com/ 2) http://www.mosso.com/cloudservers_pricing.jsp

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The $10.95 Mosso plan doesn't include transfer and the $20 Slicehost includes a total of 100GB. If you use the calculator on the Mosso site to estimate the cost of the $10.95 server and 100GB of transfer (50GB in, 50GB out) it comes out to $25.95. It's not so cannibalistic anymore.

This also doesn't appear to be an apples to apples comparison. Slicehost provides fixed virtual private servers and Mosso seems to be more similar to EC2.

Ah that makes a lot more sense, I overlooked that.

Slicehost provides fixed virtual private servers and Mosso seems to be more similar to EC2.

Besides the pricing model I don't see any difference. A crucial difference between Slicehost/Mosso and EC2 IMO is that Slicehost/Mosso doesn't have "ephemeral" stuff that can go away at any time.

Slicehost's included transfer makes a huge difference.

Take the 4GB level:

  Slicehost w/1600GB transfer == $250
  Mosso w/1600GB transfer (assuming 75% out which is likely an under-estimate) == $470
  Mosso w/1600GB transfer (100% in) == $303

So, it depends on how your application will work. Mosso has a lot of bandwidth charges that start to add up.

Bandwidth is not included in Mosso's Cloud. I think if you were to max out on bandwidth slicehost is still a better offer.

It depends, I would pick Mosso to use as a staging or dev server, or to serve up a personal blog.

If I was doing a site that got more traffic I would use a Slice instead.

Because of the bandwidth cost or some other reason?

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