Choosing cloud servers - it's down to Linode versus Rackspace - comments?

I want a 64 bit cloud server to run a MongoDB based web application on Linux.

I want to spend as little as possible in case the product makes no money. So it's come down to Linode versus Rackspace Cloud and I'm considering machines with 1 or 2 gig RAM.

I'd be interested in comments from current Linode users and current Rackspace cloud users. Are you happy with your cloud hosting provider? Any tips or gotchas?

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johng 16y ago ↗

No history with Rackspace but I've had a Linode system up for about 6 months without issue. On the other hand, I've heard of 2 instances of Rackspace having outages in that time.

To be honest with you though, I don't trust either.... I do most of my hosting with dedicated servers at Softlayer and feel that is the best route.

I mainly use my Linode as off-network storage/testing location.

corin_ 16y ago ↗

Great performance comparison of Slicehost/Linode/Prgmr/Rackspace/Amazon - http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison

Previous HN thread (10 days ago) on a similar subject - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1432386

mark_l_watson 16y ago ↗

I also needed a 64bit VPS earlier this year to run AllegroGraph 4 (only available as a 64bit app) and I swapped an existing 32bit RimuHosting VPS to for a 64bit VPS. I have heard good things about Linode but my experience for years has been using RimuHosting (good for very good service and admin) and EC2.

An EC2 is out for running a low cost server because the small instances are not 64bit.

[dead] ItarPeyo 16y ago ↗

We migrated our old 1GB RAM slicehost VPS to 2 1GB RAM Rackspace servers. The performance/stability remains the same as they are on the same hardware as I understand. So it's all great. The reason for migrating was we used a small fraction of the bandwidth provided with the slicehost plan, so as rackspace charges by GB of bandwidth we only pay 15% more for double the performance with our current bandwidth usage. Linode plans look cheap compared to rackspace or slicehost. My problem is that I've tried too many oversold VPS hosts in the past that had very slugish performance. So I've never considered moving to anything outside of rackspace servers.