Just had a chat with a great rep from Rackspace named Will Conway:

SUMMARY:

* Same as SliceHost except pricing is hourly, instead of monthly

* 1GB Slice = $43.80/mo

* Upgrade/downgrade whenever you want

* For questions, contact Will at 210-312-5181 or wconway@mosso.com

* You get root SSH access, just like SliceHost

FULL THING:
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Will: Hi welcome to Mosso the Rackspace cloud. How can I help you? May I also get your name and email address just in case we get disconnected?

you: Hello

you: Melvin Ram, melvin@volcanicmarketing.com

you: Is Cloud Servers the same as slicehost?

Will: Nice to meet you Melvin

Will: it's a little different

Will: so with slicehost you're locked in to bandwidth

Will: cloud servers is on a utility model with bandwidth

Will: slicehost you're paying montly

Will: monthly*

Will: cloud servers is hourly

you: I currently have a 1gig slice with slice host and it's way under the bandwidth limits... how much would that cost with Cloud Servers? And will I get the same type of root access?

Will: you will get the same root access

Will: 1 GB (40GB Storage) $0.06 hourly, $43.80 monthly
you: can I upgrade a server to a larger server and then shrink back down at a later time?

Will: sure, and you wont have to reupload anything just like with slicehost
you: Will this be replacing slicehost?

Will: nope

Will: you'll still have slicehost if you want it

Will: this is just a little extra : )

you: Is there any reason someone would want to stay with SliceHost and not migrate to this?

you: especially since I'm assuming both system will have access to exact same hardware and network

Will: simply a comfort factor I think

Will: if you already know it

Will: but to me cloud servers is going to be the way to go

you: it's almost half the cost for exact same thing... a little pain for 200% ROI makes sense

you: anyway, thanks for the info

you: I'll be switching soon

Will: great, thanks for keeping it in the family : )

you: I was thinking of switching to heroku but I might just think twice

you: heroku is based on the AWS system

Will: Great, that's what we were going for

Will: Booooo AWS

Will: we're faster anyway : )

Will: and we specialize in hosting not books....

Will: So I see you're in marketing

Will: do you have some rather large projects that you may need this for, or just to run day to day stuff

you: small stuff for now

Will: cool, just checking : )

Will: I'll get that email out to you

you: Right now, the main app is www.BrainBankhq.com

you: its in it's infancy right now

you: Zero paying clients

you: but a lot of people promising to start using it once I add ability to charge people for the content.

Will: gotta start somewhere right

you: Yep... they'll all be membership-based websites so I'm assuming that a few of them will turn to be much better than most of them... so it's just a matter of seeing where it goes.

you: And just refining it so it's simple

Will: so what's this for, kind of link Junto with Ben Franklin?

you: huh?

you: reading about it on wikipedia... gemme me a sec

Will: Junto was a group that eventually evolved into the University of Philadelphia...basically a think tank

you: Well some of the membership sites may turn into that but it wasn't the original intent.

you: Originally, I wanted to create an app that I could use to take down notes for my chemistry class and sell it future students.

Will: ah, yes that would be very useful

you: yea, but I didnt know how to do credit card processing so I made it so it would be offer free content

you: I figured it would be a lead-gen tool

you: content creators don't like that idea

you: Or at least I haven't explained it well enough for them to like the idea.

Will: I'm sure you'll get through to them : )

you: anyway, I've come across enough people who want to create membership-based content sites that it makes sense to give it a try to go that direction

you: Btw, did you get a chance to send over that stuff?

Will: have you looked at cloud servers to host this

Will: it's a little more scaleable

you: It's on Slicehost for now

Will: just sent it

you: I'll move it here soon

you: You don't mind if I share it with a few friends to pass on the new, do ya?

Will: not at all

Will: feel free to give them my email address if they have follow up questions

Will: or they can call me direct at 210-312-5181

Will: my name is Will Conway

you: Gotcha! Thanks Will!

Will: my pleasure

you: Wait, one more Q

you: It obviously comes with SSH, right?

Will: correct

Will: you'll have full command line access

you: Just like SliceHost

Will: you bet

Will: Slicehost is the foundation of cloud servers so you'll find that it's all very similar

you: Gotcha