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Ask HN: Slicehost vs Mosso Cloud Server?

4 points by yourabi ↗ HN
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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reconbot
Bandwidth is not included in Mosso's Cloud. I think if you were to max out on bandwidth slicehost is still a better offer.
jm4
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.

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

mdasen
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.
megaman821
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.

wmf
Because of the bandwidth cost or some other reason?