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Announcing Rackspace Cloud Monitoring Private Beta

• SquareWheel 15y ago
  Why is it that any website with a fixed element on the screen is so damn laggy?
  • Noughmad 15y ago
    Old browser? Works fine with Firefox 8.
    • SquareWheel 15y ago
      Rather sluggish in Chrome beta here. I've always found this to be the case, though. Twitter, Gawkers's redesign, etc.
      • xorl 15y ago
        Loading fine here in chrome dev 17.
• goodweeds 15y ago
  So .. Cloudkick rebranded?
• mocko 15y ago
  I've been using Rackspace cloud for a couple of clients and reckon they're lagging far behind Amazon and the other providers. They've bet the farm on the OpenStack project but given the number of players involved (over a hundred!) the pace of progress is glacial. It lacks really fundamental features (no private backend network, no elastic load balancing, no [public] support for elastic IP's) and these problems make it a pain to use for all but small projects. In fact the only reasons I can think of to recommend it right now are the generous pricing and the way their cloud instances are more VPS-ish (i.e. unlikely to lose local state) than EC2's.
  • jarito 15y ago
    They do have load balancing (http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/loadbalancers/ http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/loadba...).
    • mocko 15y ago
      Yes, they do have load balancing. But not elastic load balancing - there's no automated way to scale the size of your platform in response to load. So you end up futzing around with a bunch of scripts to do this and inevitably do it it badly.