We recently moved our app from AWS to Rackspace because of OpenStack. If we are successful, we know we want to run on our own hardware, but to get a sense of th

We recently moved our app from AWS to Rackspace because of OpenStack. If we are successful, we know we want to run on our own hardware, but to get a sense of the market is too expensive using dedicated hardware. Rackspace and OpenStack gives us a way to test the waters using a cloud provider, then take ownership of the whole ball of wax later, without massive disruption to the software development effort.