Rackspace acquire Slicehost

Re:Rackspace acquire Slicehost by utnick on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @02:29PM (#340358)

Question about terminology:

Is a slicehost slice considered 'cloud computing'?

Scoble and others are comparing slicehost to EC2 and amzn web services, but doesn't slicehost compete more with traditional dedicated hosting and other vps providers?

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Re:Rackspace acquire Slicehost by cstejerean on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @02:40PM (#340373)

I think slicehost is definitely close to EC2 in that you can programmatically bring nodes up and down so you can build a flexible infrastructure.

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Re:Rackspace acquire Slicehost by lux on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @03:37PM (#340452)

Exactly. Their API for me is the distinguishing factor that means I can build SaaS-based offerings on top of them, and at a more affordable rate than EC2 as well. You don't necessarily need the horsepower of a full 24x7 EC2 instance, and a basic $20/mo slice can do a lot.

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