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<quote>Amazon has a CDN and servers distributed globally. This is important to Mixpanel as websites all over the world are sending us data. There’s nothing like

by jread 16y ago

<quote>Amazon has a CDN and servers distributed globally. This is important to Mixpanel as websites all over the world are sending us data. There’s nothing like this on Rackspace.</quote> Actually, Rackspace cloud offers CDN services with Cloud Files through Limelight, although it does not support some features that CloudFront does like CName and streaming.

suhail 16y ago
But not physical servers which is really what I am referring to.
- jread 16y ago
  Rackspace Cloud has data centers in Texas and Illinois. However, they don't let you choose (your account is assigned to one data center at the time of creation). EC2 certain offers a lot more flexibility in this regard with EC2 data center regions in California, Virginia, Ireland and Singapore. I spoke with Rackspace at Interop a few weeks ago and they told me they are working on expanding to additional data centers including an international data center very soon and offering choice.
  - 0x44 16y ago
    You can "choose" insofar as you can email support and they can manually change what data-center your next VM and all subsequent ones will be built in. It really should be exposed through the API, but the people who write the customer-facing API haven't done it.
    - jread 16y ago
      That is not the story I got when I contacted support and asked if I could deploy a VM specifically to the Chicago cloud. Rackspace's support told me this was not possible an I'd have to setup an entirely new account in order to deploy to that data center.
      - 0x44 16y ago
        Well, I guess that's one way of doing it. :( I wrote the code in question, though. It wasn't supposed to be an _advertised_ option, but when I wrote it it was supposed to be a usable one.
justinchen 16y ago
A CDN is probably the easiest service provider to switch. We've tried Panther, Voxel, Cloudfront and use Edgecast. It's just a matter of changing some CNAMEs.

by jread 16y ago

suhail 16y ago

But not physical servers which is really what I am referring to.

jread 16y ago
Rackspace Cloud has data centers in Texas and Illinois. However, they don't let you choose (your account is assigned to one data center at the time of creation). EC2 certain offers a lot more flexibility in this regard with EC2 data center regions in California, Virginia, Ireland and Singapore. I spoke with Rackspace at Interop a few weeks ago and they told me they are working on expanding to additional data centers including an international data center very soon and offering choice.
- 0x44 16y ago
  You can "choose" insofar as you can email support and they can manually change what data-center your next VM and all subsequent ones will be built in. It really should be exposed through the API, but the people who write the customer-facing API haven't done it.
  - jread 16y ago
    That is not the story I got when I contacted support and asked if I could deploy a VM specifically to the Chicago cloud. Rackspace's support told me this was not possible an I'd have to setup an entirely new account in order to deploy to that data center.
    - 0x44 16y ago
      Well, I guess that's one way of doing it. :( I wrote the code in question, though. It wasn't supposed to be an _advertised_ option, but when I wrote it it was supposed to be a usable one.

justinchen 16y ago

A CDN is probably the easiest service provider to switch. We've tried Panther, Voxel, Cloudfront and use Edgecast. It's just a matter of changing some CNAMEs.