Ditched the cloud for a Linode
I've been using a server at the rackspace cloud for quite some time now to host my personal projects and for the most of it, i've been more than happy with it. Of course there was always the latency issue of using a US based server but that I could live with. The deal with cloud hosting is that you pay a minimal flat fee and then pay for bandwidth/storage/etc on top of that. The costs of these things have been pretty cool and I found I was saving myself a bit of cash in comparison to my previous host, the also awesome Slicehost. I must admit, I looked at the costs of the two and after a period of running both servers with a similar load for a while I made the call to go to the rackspace cloud as it was working out a fair bit cheaper. A couple of months recently however saw an increase in usage and the costs went up significantly and without warning. This pissed me off a bit if i'm honest. Had I been able to cap my usage to a certain budget, I'd still be with the rackspace cloud. It appears that this isn't possible (could be wrong?) and I'm only happy that the surge in popularity of the sites I hosted there wasn't greater or I'd be even more out of pocket.
