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		bcx on March 13, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rackspace (via Mosso) to Launch Cloud Servers at 1... Any word on whether these will be 32 bit or 64 instances. Slicehost's ram is far less "efficient" than linode, and you only really need 64bit for addressing ram anyway.

listic on March 13, 2009 [–]

What do you mean by "Slicehost's ram is far less "efficient" than linode"?

moe on March 13, 2009 | [–]

He probably means that slicehost only offers 64bit VMs which causes some memory overhead.

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