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I have both Slicehost and Rackspace Cloud servers. I'm hoping they bring in more features from the Slicehost control panel, and the migrations will be nothing m
by qaexl 15y ago
I have both Slicehost and Rackspace Cloud servers. I'm hoping they bring in more features from the Slicehost control panel, and the migrations will be nothing more than moving images around on their backend (Yeah, right). One big thing missing in Rackspace Cloud servers is the ability to separate billing from technical accounts, and being able to delegate technical control to a different account. This was one of the best features for Slicehost, allowing independent contractors to push out a site, but have billing done through the site owners. Domain names isn't an issue for me (I use DNSMadeEasy) but I can see how it would be a bigger deal later.
Lesser features -- Slicehost has several kernel versions available. Rackspace Cloud does not. Slicehost control panel's UX is just much better.
In spite of all this, I've been moving as many of my customer's servers over to Rackspace for a while now. Most of them don't need the extra bandwidth you get for the slice, making Rackspace Cloud much cheaper when you add in backup images.
IPv6 is a big deal though. Everyone's going to have to touch their long-running servers sometime before the end of this year. With IPv6 Day closing in this June and the eventual migration of residential broadband to IPv6, this is one of those inevitable things that isn't going to magically go away.
- bwooce 15y ago> IPv6 is a big deal though. Everyone's going to have to touch their long-running servers sometime before the end of this year. With IPv6 Day closing in this June and the eventual migration of residential broadband to IPv6, this is one of those inevitable things that isn't going to magically go away. I think you're confused about the implications of the IPv6 transition -- IPv4 is a subset of that address space, so existing servers will "just work" via Carrier-Grade NAT that ISPs are providing. Some tiny percentage of the Internet is IPv6 reachable today, and it ain't all gonna change this year. The IPv4 space can't turn into a parallel ghetto Internet after all...
- count 15y agoWhat carriers are providing 'Carrier-Grade NAT'? IPv4 WILL turn into a ghetto, and with good reason.
- count 15y agoWhy the downvotes? CGN is a barely support draft at the IETF currently. Dual-stack with 6to4/4to6 is the standard based migration mechanism most organizations will be using.
- bwooce 15y agoAsia has been doing IPv6 internally for years, out of necessity, and somehow they still manage to see us. Dual-stack isn't the answer when you've got no IPv4 addresses left to assign.
- qaexl 15y agoI think you're underestimating the effects of Murphy's Law. Ah well, necessity is the mother of invention.