A short update on my Slicehost vps which I have had for two months now. I love it. It's fast, reliable and I have no criticisms of it whatsoever. I've cancelled my vpslink vps and I will cancel site5 once the contract runs out. All my eggs in one basket (ok, two if you count the rsync.net backups). Slicehost offer backups but:
- they cost $15 a month
- you only get three
- they are snapshots of your live system and hence will back up the trojans, root kits or whatever your system has succumbed to
- rsync.net is independent
TODO: learn capistrano.
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I don't get the rsync.net bit - had a look and they cost a minimum of $1.60 per GB per month.
So for the $15 Slicehost backup (which is for the 1G Slice?) you get 3 x 40GB backups which can be restored with a click of a button.
With rsync it will be something like $190 per month (for the same thing but there are some discounts for higher storage) and the hassle of trying to get it back on the Slice.
I don't see how this is better?