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One easy alternative to AWS is just shovelling your cash directly onto a bonfire. However, if you care about the actual server bit, Rackspace have their 'hybri

by thom 10y ago

One easy alternative to AWS is just shovelling your cash directly onto a bonfire. However, if you care about the actual server bit, Rackspace have their 'hybrid' cloud offers. There's a small but well-thought-of company in the UK called Bytemark who have a cloud offering but I doubt it qualifies as having a global footprint.

meritt 10y ago
AWS is just meeting the needs of the startup community, like the monthly box subscription website who believes they have the same engineering problems as Netflix.
- ranman 10y ago
  Netflix... which also runs on AWS. Or was that the joke? https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/ https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/
hkt 10y ago
I worked for Bytemark. If you want to automate from the start (even slightly) they're a pitifully bad choice, I am sad to say.
AlexB138 10y ago
Rackspace is, unfortunately, woefully behind the times when it comes to functionality. You're also looking at long term, very expensive, contracts for individual physical boxes if you're doing a hybrid approach. Their once-fanatical-support has also taken a major quality hit due to all the waves the company has had to ride out. Even as a one-time fan, I would be hard pressed to start a new project on RS.
- spartacle 10y ago
  I work at Rackspace, and our Public Cloud is run on Openstack, so it's hardly 'woefully behind the times when it comes to functionality'. We have one of the old, and largest deployments of OS there is, so there are some technical challenges and loads of new features coming.
chucky_z 10y ago
We dumped Rackspace for AWS. I tried desperately to get them to do anything for us about their cloud as we had dedicated servers and needed to grow a bit. I was able to order a huge dedicated server at an OK price, but FFS it took eight weeks to be available for use. I asked a ton of times about their cloud stuff and just got re-directed back to dedicated servers. I got tired of it, went to AWS, and haven't looked back. Using reserved instances and scaling groups we're paying about 10% less per month for 8x the number of servers, and slightly more cpu/memory/disk overall (we had some pretty beefy stuff at Rackspace).

by thom 10y ago

meritt 10y ago

AWS is just meeting the needs of the startup community, like the monthly box subscription website who believes they have the same engineering problems as Netflix.

ranman 10y ago
Netflix... which also runs on AWS. Or was that the joke? https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/ https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/

hkt 10y ago

I worked for Bytemark. If you want to automate from the start (even slightly) they're a pitifully bad choice, I am sad to say.

AlexB138 10y ago

Rackspace is, unfortunately, woefully behind the times when it comes to functionality. You're also looking at long term, very expensive, contracts for individual physical boxes if you're doing a hybrid approach. Their once-fanatical-support has also taken a major quality hit due to all the waves the company has had to ride out. Even as a one-time fan, I would be hard pressed to start a new project on RS.

spartacle 10y ago
I work at Rackspace, and our Public Cloud is run on Openstack, so it's hardly 'woefully behind the times when it comes to functionality'. We have one of the old, and largest deployments of OS there is, so there are some technical challenges and loads of new features coming.

chucky_z 10y ago

We dumped Rackspace for AWS. I tried desperately to get them to do anything for us about their cloud as we had dedicated servers and needed to grow a bit. I was able to order a huge dedicated server at an OK price, but FFS it took eight weeks to be available for use. I asked a ton of times about their cloud stuff and just got re-directed back to dedicated servers. I got tired of it, went to AWS, and haven't looked back. Using reserved instances and scaling groups we're paying about 10% less per month for 8x the number of servers, and slightly more cpu/memory/disk overall (we had some pretty beefy stuff at Rackspace).