Well, I wont go so far calling Rackspace a 'bad' company as such, afterall they have an excellent customer support - but there are somethings which should never be overlooked or , for that matter, never be done when you have such a huge customer base. Rackspace is just taking a wrong turn here!
sure, github, thenextweb & countless others ovelooked the beauty that EC2 was.Right?
There are countless differences between EC2 & Rackspace for example CPU - rackspace's performance is way better than EC2. You should benchmark your scripts on both & then compare.
The only benefit Rackspace provides is their customer support; if I want infrastructure, I'm going to Amazon, and then building out my colo when a load profile has been established.
If you've got the staff to build out a web property, you've got the staff to man a rack of equipment.
They're both using the same virtualization. What's your use case that requires that much CPU? I'd bet spot instances would be a better fit in most cases.
Yup, spot instances would surely fit. And yes EC2 is awesome too. No point in changing the thread to a different discussion altogether. Even if Rackspace is #2, this is not what was expected of it, right? Changing the provider to EC2 is an option that everyone has but that has enormous overhead too!
I dont know how/what to think about this, also I didn't mean to include any other links , so this will be my last take for today. http://croak.eu/rDCDm9
hah, its like a variable in a function making theories about what the whole program is all about, and that there might be many other functions similar to it. :D
let those little ones play with the system, some of them will soon realize how much there is in the world outside and some of them will attempt to change the world!
its not about how fast it is or what all things are wrong in that. its about whatever is right in that - which indeed will be amazing for them.
