This is a great comparison of features between VPS.net and Slicehost. Media Temple, too, but I consider Virtuozzo somewhat inferior to Xen, so I wasn’t really looking for more reviews about them.

That being said, I’d like to know if you’ve had a chance since this post was originally written to try out Linode’s servers as well. I was under the impression that they did have a backup solution coming, and last time I remember reading somewhere that they were already in beta.

I ask because they’re usually also highly recomended, especially among Rails application developers, so to not see them in this comparison (as a reader) was a little disappointing. Not that this is your fault, of course, since, like you said, they didn’t have backups available at the time, and it was a feature you required.

Perhaps if you decide to do another review again of VPS host providers you would consider including Linode in your future comparisons? It would be very helpful to developers like me who don’t really have the resources to try out each service on our own without spending a small amount of our very limited fortune.

Again, thanks for your review, and I hope this didn’t come out sounding like a demand :) Please, excuse my rudeness if it did.

Something worth pointing out in this thread (for those of you who aren’t customers) is that Nullmind and Ditlev are the top brass at VPS.net—seriously, Ditlev is the CEO of the UK2 Group. I’m not surprised at all to see them commenting, because they answer questions in the forums on what appears to be a daily basis. As a matter of fact, my first question on the forum was answered in short order by Ditlev himself. It’s not often that you find the CEO and top decision-makers getting their hands dirty, but they do. Every day. And they know their stuff.

to be clear, I’m not affiliated with VPS.net in any way other than being a very satisfied customer. There are several other things I could rave about, but you can read them here on the blog: http://vps.net/blog/

If you’d like to direct any questions my way regarding my experiences over the past two weeks (including and emergency, all-night transition of a site to VPS.net today), please use the comment form on my website.

Cheers from Atlanta,

Willie Jackson

Some of your bullets are wrong as I am a MT customer. MT does provide backup for a nominal monthly fee. http://mediatemple.net/webhosting/dv/addons.php

You can actually :)
Just type in the code – you dont have to fill in the form.
Here is an example:
http://www.ditlev.dk/snitch/VP.....150403.jpg

:)
Ditlev

@christefano: I did look at SoftLayer, but I was more interested in their CDN offering rather than their cloud computing. The latter is simply not flexible enough for our needs, their CDN on the other hand, looks interesting. But now that VPS.net is bringing on their CDN solution, I am keen to try it out.

Did you consider SoftLayer? The last time I compared hosts, SoftLayer costs slightly more for the CPU and RAM but has nearly twice the storage and bandwidth. 5 IP addresses are included and after that they’re 50¢ (instead of the $1 or $2 charged by others).

I haven’t had any chance to test the Slicehost support, but Envato has been using them for a while now and the Ruby dev team is very happy with Slicehost, so I assume the support is great.

VPS.net support is also great, my two tickets were both answered within 20 minutes.

Media Temple’s support is similar, my three tickets were all answered within 20 minutes.

:-)