<story><title>VPS Comparison between Slicehost and Prgmr: is an $8 instance as good as a $20 one?</title><url>http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-comparison-between-slicehost-and-prgmr</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asb</author><text>Linode seems to occupy a good middle-ground. You get much more for your money than Slicehost and it&apos;s a fairly large, well-established host with multiple locations. A $20 Linode for instance gives you 360mb of of RAM, 16gb storage and 200gb transfer. They also use more powerful CPUs than the Athlon&apos;s listed for Slicehost/prgmr - my Linode is on a quad-core Xeon L5420 (2.5ghz, 6mb cache).&lt;p&gt;Just guessing, but I&apos;d expect disk access is a bigger bottleneck on highly loaded VPS servers than the CPU, so the worst and average case disk performance are probably what would concern me the most. I think prgmr is a fantastic deal - I certainly haven&apos;t seen anybody else offering so much RAM at that price point. I&apos;d be a customer if they were located on the east coast.&lt;p&gt;Finally, for those who don&apos;t know, prgmr is owned and run by lsc who&apos;s a member here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lsc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lsc&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>VPS Comparison between Slicehost and Prgmr: is an $8 instance as good as a $20 one?</title><url>http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-comparison-between-slicehost-and-prgmr</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>s3graham</author><text>I do feel like slicehost &quot;must&quot; be overpriced these days, just based on the fact that their prices haven&apos;t decreased that I can remember. (At least ~2 years, maybe more?)&lt;p&gt;Not sure if prgmr is where I&apos;d end up, but can&apos;t be all bad when &quot;figlet prgmr.com&quot; was all the time they spent on logo design. ;)</text></comment>