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My tests with rackspace old servers showed that they are slow as hell, if compared with my Euro4/month Xen server at Ingate. I dont know how they managed to cri

by kephra 13y ago

My tests with rackspace old servers showed that they are slow as hell, if compared with my Euro4/month Xen server at Ingate. I dont know how they managed to cripple Xen, to be worse the VZ, but they did. The new so called performance cloud servers are in a price range, that calls for a dedicated server at Hetzner or OVH. Sorry, no bounty: Xen should be cheaper then dedicated, and not crippled. I wont recommend Rackspace. Not even to my competition.

kordless 13y ago
I don't think a claim like this holds much weight until you run the tests and compare the new servers to other offerings. I understand you did tests on their older virtualized servers and are applying some type of logic to those results to claim the new servers are 'crippled'. Unfortunately, until you run the tests on the new servers, and are transparent about how you conducted those tests, it's unlikely your recommendations will be fair and balanced. I'd be interested in how you test your servers and what methodology you use to make comparisons in performance and pricing. It's an issue everyone in the industry will need to address as compute moves toward becoming commodity.
- kephra 13y ago
  I had been testing Rackspace servers with real life applications, e.g Modx, Magento or Wordpress. And rackspace had been several times slower than my Ingate Euro4/month Xen system. Both in terms of CPU performance (wondering how to cripple this) and even worse in terms of bandwidth. About pricing: $5-$20 is a good price range for Xen. $25-$100 is a good range for dedicated servers. $100++ calls for colocation. The 'cheapest' of your performance servers compares to a cheap Hetzner or S4U dedicated server, that allows to run Linux Containers. And most important: !NEVER! bundle hosting contract with domain name contract, so you can switch easily, if your site hits traffic.

by kephra 13y ago

kordless 13y ago

I don't think a claim like this holds much weight until you run the tests and compare the new servers to other offerings. I understand you did tests on their older virtualized servers and are applying some type of logic to those results to claim the new servers are 'crippled'. Unfortunately, until you run the tests on the new servers, and are transparent about how you conducted those tests, it's unlikely your recommendations will be fair and balanced. I'd be interested in how you test your servers and what methodology you use to make comparisons in performance and pricing. It's an issue everyone in the industry will need to address as compute moves toward becoming commodity.

kephra 13y ago
I had been testing Rackspace servers with real life applications, e.g Modx, Magento or Wordpress. And rackspace had been several times slower than my Ingate Euro4/month Xen system. Both in terms of CPU performance (wondering how to cripple this) and even worse in terms of bandwidth. About pricing: $5-$20 is a good price range for Xen. $25-$100 is a good range for dedicated servers. $100++ calls for colocation. The 'cheapest' of your performance servers compares to a cheap Hetzner or S4U dedicated server, that allows to run Linux Containers. And most important: !NEVER! bundle hosting contract with domain name contract, so you can switch easily, if your site hits traffic.