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Remember with Rackspace Cloud you are also charged for "compute cycles" (a measure of CPU, memory, and database operations), storage space and outgoing bandwidt
by byoung2 17y ago
Remember with Rackspace Cloud you are also charged for "compute cycles" (a measure of CPU, memory, and database operations), storage space and outgoing bandwidth. They know that every incoming GB of data will have to get processed on the server, so they'll get you with the compute cycles, and storage, and you're going to have to send a response back to the client, so they'll get you with the outgoing bandwidth.
I host with Rackspace Cloud, and I can tell you that compute cycles go by pretty quickly with PHP/MySQL operations if you're not careful.
- jv2222 17y agoYou get 10000. Here's bumpf from their site.... -------- What are compute cycles? Compute cycles measure how much processing time your applications require on the Rackspace Cloud. Using 10,000 compute cycles in a month is roughly equivalent to running a server with a 2.8 GHz modern processor for the same period of time. How many compute cycles will my applications use? Since web applications vary so greatly, it's hard to make a perfect guess. However, there are some guidelines that can help. First, you can think of 10,000 compute cycles as being about the same processing power as you'd get from a decent dedicated server or Amazon EC2 instance. For example 10,000 compute cycles would power: * about 2.1 million page views using a database-driven content management system * about 11 million page views of rackspacecloud.com * about 25 million requests for a static 15KB image