I can tell you why Rackspace is so expensive: because they hired Robert Scoble! http://scobleizer.com/ http://scobleizer.com/ A few years ago, I had a couple

I can tell you why Rackspace is so expensive: because they hired Robert Scoble! http://scobleizer.com/ http://scobleizer.com/ A few years ago, I had a couple dozen servers when something major broke in the Texas facility. Every customer was effected and the estimate to fix was 4 days. I just called Scoble up ( he published his phone number on the web) and he got a Rackspace VP to get our application back up in a few hours. The customer support is well worth the extra money