Rackspace Acquires Slicehost

Yesterday, Slice­host announced that they had been acquired by Rack­space—a man­aged host­ing provider based out of San Anto­nio, Texas. Slice­host has made a name for them­selves by pro­vid­ing inex­pen­sive VPS host­ing and an amaz­ing user expe­ri­ence. No con­tracts, no BS, just a fresh install of Linux, a blink­ing shell prompt and reli­able tier 1 bandwidth.

I’ve been a Slice­host cus­tomer for over a year now and couldn’t be hap­pier. Their inter­face is simple, they have great tuto­ri­als and “books” and the user com­mu­nity is top notch. As it stands right now, all of this should stay the same. Accord­ing the acqui­si­tion FAQ, Slice­host will be a sub­sidiary of Rack­space and con­tinue to do developer-​focused host­ing. There will be some cross link­ing between the sites (and Rack­space will defi­antly be lever­ag­ing some of their tech­nol­ogy) but for the most part, Slice­host will stay the same. Right now, I think that’s true. In the long run, how­ever, I’m not so con­fi­dent Slice­host will remain the bou­tique, kick-​ass host­ing com­pany that they are today. I hope they prove me wrong.

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