Have fun! I am going to take my virtual disk image to another service, and then switch back to Slicehost when they decide to start competing again. :)
I didn't mean "commoditized" in a bad way, I mean in the sense that Slicehost is doing something that a hundred of other companies are doing as well (running Xen or equivalent on a datacenter and selling virtual computers). It is easy to benchmark and scientifically see which service outperforms another on any given metric.
There is absolutely no reason to stick with Slicehost when you can switch to another datacenter in under an hour, and then switch back the week after if you'd like (prorated, of course).
I didn't mean "commoditized" in a bad way, I mean in the sense that Slicehost is doing something that a hundred of other companies are doing as well (running Xen or equivalent on a datacenter and selling virtual computers). It is easy to benchmark and scientifically see which service outperforms another on any given metric.
There is absolutely no reason to stick with Slicehost when you can switch to another datacenter in under an hour, and then switch back the week after if you'd like (prorated, of course).