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Doesn't seem likely. VMs impose limits on resource consumption (though Rackspace allows CPU bursting, from what I understand). It's not like the old days where
by irons 15y ago
Doesn't seem likely. VMs impose limits on resource consumption (though Rackspace allows CPU bursting, from what I understand). It's not like the old days where you could get lucky on a sparsely-populated shared server.
- epochwolf 15y agoRackspace cloud servers are basically what slicehost offers. They don't have cpu bursting. Instead each slice on the host is guaranteed a minimum amount of cpu and any unused capacity is available for other slices to use. So if you have four slices on a host and 3 slices only use 10% each of total cpu capacity. Each slice is guaranteed 25% but they aren't using all of their guaranteed cpu. Your slice can then consume the remaining 70% of the cpu on the host. (Minus virtualization overhead) Unlike bursting, you don't get throttled until other slices need cpu. Your slice can happy keep consuming 70% until the other slices start asking for their share.
- eropple 15y agoThey ARE what Slicehost offers. Same company, IIRC.
- epochwolf 15y agoI know Cloud Servers originally started as a direct copy of slicehost with hourly rates and end of the month billing instead of monthly prepaid billing (prorated per day). A few things have changed since then and I don't know if slicehost and rackspace are still offering the same system any more. I do know that the vm environments are the same. I'm just not sure about some of the other bits.
- moe 15y agoIf you go by the look & feel of their web interface then it certainly still feels like a bolt-on. I also remember various of their server ips to have PTRs to slicehost names, but that may have changed since I looked (a couple months ago).
- eropple 15y agoStill happens. Mine are all still pointing to slicehost.com.
- eropple 15y agoProrated hourly, actually. Which is really really nice if I only need to spin up a few clones for a little while.
- pbreit 15y agoI thought Cloud Servers were from Rackspace's Mosso project and Slicehost remains mostly independent?
- wmf 15y agoNo, Cloud Servers are Slicehost. Cloud Sites are Mosso.