[geeks] Virtual Colocation

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Jeremy Grosser wrote:
> I've been using Slicehost [1] for about two months now and am quite
> impressed. They have a policy of not overselling and their admins are on IRC
> fairly often. The only disadvantage is that they've got quite a long waiting
> list due to their limit of 24 VMs to a single host (each host is a quad
> processor Xeon with 32 GB of RAM). They run Xen for all of the
> virtualization so you're limited to major Linux distributions for
> installation (Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, Gentoo). Their prebuilt images
> install in about two minutes after which, you'll get an email with an IP and
> a root password.
> 
> They're a newcomer to the VPS market, but having seen the competition, I'd
> say they're selling a decent bang for the buck ($20/month gets you 256 MB of
> RAM and 10 GB of disk)

I was looking at PANIX for a NetBSD 3.1 VM (also on Xen), for $20, you 
get 256MB of RAM and 8GB disk, and 100GB/month transfers.  Plus PANIX 
has an excellent reputation.  How much transfer does Slicehost give you?

Plus, no waiting list.

Peace...  Sridhar