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I congratulate the Mailgun team and I wish them all the best, but Rackspace's previous acquisitions bode ill for the future of Mailgun. Rackspace acquired Clou

by chroma 14y ago

I congratulate the Mailgun team and I wish them all the best, but Rackspace's previous acquisitions bode ill for the future of Mailgun. Rackspace acquired CloudKick in late 2010 and Anso Labs in February of 2011. Both teams must have been put on other projects, because their products have stagnated. CloudKick no longer lets people sign up. Their blog, https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/ https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/, has broken images and few updates. I couldn't find any products by Anso Labs, so I googled the founders. It looks like they no longer work at Rackspace: http://gigaom.com/cloud/openstack-developers-leave-rackspace-for-nebula/ http://gigaom.com/cloud/openstack-developers-leave-rackspace... Again I wish the best for Mailgun, but I really hope they know what they're getting into. If I were a customer, I would be wary right now.

jarito 14y ago
I work at Rackspace and the CloudKick team (now augmented with a lot of other Rackers) has been heads down working on improving their product. The intial results can be seen here http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/monitoring/ http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/monitoring/. EDIT: Removed some text about fixing the broken site. I just checked and it looks like it has been updated to point to the Cloud Monitoring solution. If there are broken links or images, feel free to post them or send them to me and I'll see what I can do.
larrywright 14y ago
CloudKick is perhaps one example, but Slicehost is a counterpoint. It became their Rackspace Cloud offering, which is quite good.
- chroma 14y ago
  Did it? I thought Rackspace was using OpenStack. And there was that PR debacle migrating Slicehost accounts to Rackspace Cloud. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2510300 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2510300 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2515650 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2515650
  - jarito 14y ago
    I work at Rack. Our legacy compute provider is based on the Slicehost code. Our new Open Cloud offering is based on OpenStack nova.
    - chroma 14y ago
      Thanks for the clarification.

by chroma 14y ago

jarito 14y ago

I work at Rackspace and the CloudKick team (now augmented with a lot of other Rackers) has been heads down working on improving their product. The intial results can be seen here http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/monitoring/ http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/monitoring/. EDIT: Removed some text about fixing the broken site. I just checked and it looks like it has been updated to point to the Cloud Monitoring solution. If there are broken links or images, feel free to post them or send them to me and I'll see what I can do.

larrywright 14y ago

CloudKick is perhaps one example, but Slicehost is a counterpoint. It became their Rackspace Cloud offering, which is quite good.

chroma 14y ago
Did it? I thought Rackspace was using OpenStack. And there was that PR debacle migrating Slicehost accounts to Rackspace Cloud. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2510300 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2510300 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2515650 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2515650
- jarito 14y ago
  I work at Rack. Our legacy compute provider is based on the Slicehost code. Our new Open Cloud offering is based on OpenStack nova.
  - chroma 14y ago
    Thanks for the clarification.