Just had a chat with a great rep from Rackspace named Will Conway:
SUMMARY:
* Same as SliceHost except pricing is hourly, instead of monthly
* 1GB Slice = $43.80/mo
* Upgrade/downgrade whenever you want
* For questions, contact Will at 210-312-5181 or wconway@mosso.com
* You get root SSH access, just like SliceHost
FULL THING:
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Will: Hi welcome to Mosso the Rackspace cloud. How can I help you? May I also get your name and email address just in case we get disconnected?
you: Hello
you: Melvin Ram, melvin@volcanicmarketing.com
you: Is Cloud Servers the same as slicehost?
Will: Nice to meet you Melvin
Will: it's a little different
Will: so with slicehost you're locked in to bandwidth
Will: cloud servers is on a utility model with bandwidth
Will: slicehost you're paying montly
Will: monthly*
Will: cloud servers is hourly
you: I currently have a 1gig slice with slice host and it's way under the bandwidth limits... how much would that cost with Cloud Servers? And will I get the same type of root access?
Will: you will get the same root access
Will: 1 GB (40GB Storage) $0.06 hourly, $43.80 monthly
you: can I upgrade a server to a larger server and then shrink back down at a later time?
Will: sure, and you wont have to reupload anything just like with slicehost
you: Will this be replacing slicehost?
Will: nope
Will: you'll still have slicehost if you want it
Will: this is just a little extra : )
you: Is there any reason someone would want to stay with SliceHost and not migrate to this?
you: especially since I'm assuming both system will have access to exact same hardware and network
Will: simply a comfort factor I think
Will: if you already know it
Will: but to me cloud servers is going to be the way to go
you: it's almost half the cost for exact same thing... a little pain for 200% ROI makes sense
you: anyway, thanks for the info
you: I'll be switching soon
Will: great, thanks for keeping it in the family : )
you: I was thinking of switching to heroku but I might just think twice
you: heroku is based on the AWS system
Will: Great, that's what we were going for
Will: Booooo AWS
Will: we're faster anyway : )
Will: and we specialize in hosting not books....
Will: So I see you're in marketing
Will: do you have some rather large projects that you may need this for, or just to run day to day stuff
you: small stuff for now
Will: cool, just checking : )
Will: I'll get that email out to you
you: Right now, the main app is www.BrainBankhq.com
you: its in it's infancy right now
you: Zero paying clients
you: but a lot of people promising to start using it once I add ability to charge people for the content.
Will: gotta start somewhere right
you: Yep... they'll all be membership-based websites so I'm assuming that a few of them will turn to be much better than most of them... so it's just a matter of seeing where it goes.
you: And just refining it so it's simple
Will: so what's this for, kind of link Junto with Ben Franklin?
you: huh?
you: reading about it on wikipedia... gemme me a sec
Will: Junto was a group that eventually evolved into the University of Philadelphia...basically a think tank
you: Well some of the membership sites may turn into that but it wasn't the original intent.
you: Originally, I wanted to create an app that I could use to take down notes for my chemistry class and sell it future students.
Will: ah, yes that would be very useful
you: yea, but I didnt know how to do credit card processing so I made it so it would be offer free content
you: I figured it would be a lead-gen tool
you: content creators don't like that idea
you: Or at least I haven't explained it well enough for them to like the idea.
Will: I'm sure you'll get through to them : )
you: anyway, I've come across enough people who want to create membership-based content sites that it makes sense to give it a try to go that direction
you: Btw, did you get a chance to send over that stuff?
Will: have you looked at cloud servers to host this
Will: it's a little more scaleable
you: It's on Slicehost for now
Will: just sent it
you: I'll move it here soon
you: You don't mind if I share it with a few friends to pass on the new, do ya?
Will: not at all
Will: feel free to give them my email address if they have follow up questions
Will: or they can call me direct at 210-312-5181
Will: my name is Will Conway
you: Gotcha! Thanks Will!
Will: my pleasure
you: Wait, one more Q
you: It obviously comes with SSH, right?
Will: correct
Will: you'll have full command line access
you: Just like SliceHost
Will: you bet
Will: Slicehost is the foundation of cloud servers so you'll find that it's all very similar
SUMMARY:
* Same as SliceHost except pricing is hourly, instead of monthly
* 1GB Slice = $43.80/mo
* Upgrade/downgrade whenever you want
* For questions, contact Will at 210-312-5181 or wconway@mosso.com
* You get root SSH access, just like SliceHost
FULL THING: ===========
Will: Hi welcome to Mosso the Rackspace cloud. How can I help you? May I also get your name and email address just in case we get disconnected?
you: Hello
you: Melvin Ram, melvin@volcanicmarketing.com
you: Is Cloud Servers the same as slicehost?
Will: Nice to meet you Melvin
Will: it's a little different
Will: so with slicehost you're locked in to bandwidth
Will: cloud servers is on a utility model with bandwidth
Will: slicehost you're paying montly
Will: monthly*
Will: cloud servers is hourly
you: I currently have a 1gig slice with slice host and it's way under the bandwidth limits... how much would that cost with Cloud Servers? And will I get the same type of root access?
Will: you will get the same root access
Will: 1 GB (40GB Storage) $0.06 hourly, $43.80 monthly you: can I upgrade a server to a larger server and then shrink back down at a later time?
Will: sure, and you wont have to reupload anything just like with slicehost you: Will this be replacing slicehost?
Will: nope
Will: you'll still have slicehost if you want it
Will: this is just a little extra : )
you: Is there any reason someone would want to stay with SliceHost and not migrate to this?
you: especially since I'm assuming both system will have access to exact same hardware and network
Will: simply a comfort factor I think
Will: if you already know it
Will: but to me cloud servers is going to be the way to go
you: it's almost half the cost for exact same thing... a little pain for 200% ROI makes sense
you: anyway, thanks for the info
you: I'll be switching soon
Will: great, thanks for keeping it in the family : )
you: I was thinking of switching to heroku but I might just think twice
you: heroku is based on the AWS system
Will: Great, that's what we were going for
Will: Booooo AWS
Will: we're faster anyway : )
Will: and we specialize in hosting not books....
Will: So I see you're in marketing
Will: do you have some rather large projects that you may need this for, or just to run day to day stuff
you: small stuff for now
Will: cool, just checking : )
Will: I'll get that email out to you
you: Right now, the main app is www.BrainBankhq.com
you: its in it's infancy right now
you: Zero paying clients
you: but a lot of people promising to start using it once I add ability to charge people for the content.
Will: gotta start somewhere right
you: Yep... they'll all be membership-based websites so I'm assuming that a few of them will turn to be much better than most of them... so it's just a matter of seeing where it goes.
you: And just refining it so it's simple
Will: so what's this for, kind of link Junto with Ben Franklin?
you: huh?
you: reading about it on wikipedia... gemme me a sec
Will: Junto was a group that eventually evolved into the University of Philadelphia...basically a think tank
you: Well some of the membership sites may turn into that but it wasn't the original intent.
you: Originally, I wanted to create an app that I could use to take down notes for my chemistry class and sell it future students.
Will: ah, yes that would be very useful
you: yea, but I didnt know how to do credit card processing so I made it so it would be offer free content
you: I figured it would be a lead-gen tool
you: content creators don't like that idea
you: Or at least I haven't explained it well enough for them to like the idea.
Will: I'm sure you'll get through to them : )
you: anyway, I've come across enough people who want to create membership-based content sites that it makes sense to give it a try to go that direction
you: Btw, did you get a chance to send over that stuff?
Will: have you looked at cloud servers to host this
Will: it's a little more scaleable
you: It's on Slicehost for now
Will: just sent it
you: I'll move it here soon
you: You don't mind if I share it with a few friends to pass on the new, do ya?
Will: not at all
Will: feel free to give them my email address if they have follow up questions
Will: or they can call me direct at 210-312-5181
Will: my name is Will Conway
you: Gotcha! Thanks Will!
Will: my pleasure
you: Wait, one more Q
you: It obviously comes with SSH, right?
Will: correct
Will: you'll have full command line access
you: Just like SliceHost
Will: you bet
Will: Slicehost is the foundation of cloud servers so you'll find that it's all very similar
you: Gotcha