Mosso CloudServers vs Slicehost
So at Monochrome we’re loving Mosso Cloud Servers and the flexibility they offer. Mosso Cloud Servers are the outcome of Mosso purchasing Slicehost, in fact the reverse DNS for my Cloud Server shows as Slicehost.net.
One thing to watch out for (and something that I imagine will get ironed out shortly) are the price differentials between the two sites. The prices on Slicehost.net INCLUDE a bandwidth allocation depending on the package you choose where as the prices for Mosso Cloud Servers do not include bandwidth, with is charged at $0.22/GB out and $0.08 in. *BUT* overages on Slicehost are charged at a blanket $0.3/GB (from http://www.slicehost.com/questions/#buy-storage).
So comparing like for like;
Slicehost
512Mb, 20GB, 200GB = $38
Mosso CloudServers
512Mb, 20GB, 0GB = $21.90
So if say you used 200GB in and 10GB out you’d be charged $44.8 on top of $21.90 totalling, $66.70 a month so Mosso Cloud Servers actually cost more than SliceHost but in the long run Slicehost could end up costing you more if you go over the package allocation and you have to pay overages. But there again if you use significantly less bandwidth than the packaged amount then Cloud Servers work out cheaper because you pay for what you’re using.
Just food for though…
UPDATE: Just had a word with some folks at Slicehost. They will continue to operate as a separate division of Rackspace. Slicehost slices are a different product than Mosso Cloud Servers and the reverse IP of the cloud servers will change in time.
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Obviously though the minute you need a ‘private’ server then Mosso is the better option – eg for database, with Slicehost you’d be paying for bandwidth you’d never use.
Well Rackspace bought Slicehost and used the technology to create Mosso. Mosso offers Sites, Servers and Storage. Servers is basically a revamping of Slicehost and they left the latter as a “Developer friendly” alternative with a bit more included in the price but a bit less production ready. So for a webapp that previously required a dedicated server you would go for a Mosso Server. For one that you would’ve run on a VPS you can go with Slicehost.
My 2 cents…