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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 OpenS
by 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 agoThey do have load balancing (http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/loadbalancers/ http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/loadba...).
- mocko 15y agoYes, 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.