One of the major performance metrics I looked at when evaluating Linode vs. Slicehost was disk performance. Here are the stats for my two servers as of a few moments ago: [ Performance taken with htparm -tT on both systems at the same time. ] Slicehost Cached Reads: 413.15 MB/sec Buffered Reads: 7.27 MB/sec Linode Cached Reads: 5576.59…