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A friend's startup used Rackspace Cloud for all of two weeks. It's a really strange product. It pretends to be a cloud service but it's really just Yet Another
by seldo 17y ago
A friend's startup used Rackspace Cloud for all of two weeks. It's a really strange product. It pretends to be a cloud service but it's really just Yet Another Shared Host, only more expensive. After their account got suspended without notification for exceeding their "processor cycles" limit (wtf?) they bailed.
- jcromartie 17y agoUpgrade to a Platinum account for 2875910101401600 dedicated processor cycles per month!
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agowe used them for publictivity. though they say they could scale, they couldn't handle what we had for our duplicate contacts processing algorithm. Everytime it would run, we started to get: no suitable nodes to serve your request. I took this as: "we can't scale to meet your demand".
- andr 17y agoIt's worth highlighting the difference between Rackspace Cloud Servers (aka Slicehost) and Rackspace Cloud Sites (aka Mosso). The former is pretty good and reasonably priced. The latter is not.
- yesimahuman 17y agoAre you referring to Cloud Servers or sites? I am finding Cloud Servers to be a great system, especially when you have load balancing and backend servers that don't use any non-local bandwidth. at $10/mo for a 256MB slice compared to $20/mo for slicehost, it is a good deal if you need a lot of small workers.