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Rackspace Cloud has been good for me. Rackspace Cloud Sites not so much. Seemingly random errors coming from the infrastructure level, not much fun to debug.
by analog 14y ago
Rackspace Cloud has been good for me. Rackspace Cloud Sites not so much. Seemingly random errors coming from the infrastructure level, not much fun to debug.
- zpk 14y agoOh, oh! Can I get some more details? What's bad about Cloud Sites? Does this mean you are using Cloud Server? Did you deploy the web and database on a single instance?
- analog 14y agoWell, the Cloud Server is basically a VM that you have full root access to, so yeah install apache and mysql, varnish whatever and off you go. But performance seemed better than the equivalent AWS instances that I tried, and I've had no outages in the 3 or 4 years or so I've been using it. Which compares well with AWS. Cloud Sites are a totally different product. My first complaint was no ssh access so you can't deploy with version control. FTP like it's 1999. Second issue, was we would see random null responses that did not come from our application (medium sized Drupal site). It was a while ago, but here's a more recent post recounting the same problems. [1] And another post on Reddit from a couple of days ago with a couple of other people. [2] Drupal is possibly similar enough to Wordpress that you'd see similar issues. For a SAAS I'd be looking at the most reliable hosting I could get if I were you. Outages are going to cost you both your time and customer trust. [1] http://mavergames.org/content/drupal-rackspace-clouds-cloud-sites-platform-some-tips-our-experiences http://mavergames.org/content/drupal-rackspace-clouds-cloud-... [2] http://www.reddit.com/r/drupal/comments/18bcbb/is_it_time_for_me_to_move_to_a_vps_or_dedicated/ http://www.reddit.com/r/drupal/comments/18bcbb/is_it_time_fo...