I've never used Chef but I've heard good things about it. Of course,
one more learning curve... At times like this I wish my company had
more employees than just me! :-)
Thanks,
Ken
On May 3, 2011, at 10:52 AM, James Miller wrote:
Use Chef to configure your servers :)
It's definitely some work up-front to get recipes how you like them,
but then you can build replicas on Slicehost/Rackspace/EC2 in
minutes with confidence that it's done right and you didn't miss
anything.
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Ken Hudson <[email protected]
> wrote:
Thank you for the info James!
Any words of wisdom on the migration?
Thanks, Ken
On May 3, 2011, at 10:44 AM, James Miller wrote:
I moved a client (4 servers) from Slicehost to Rackspace a few
months back and so far it's actually been less expensive.
Slicehost gives you a bunch of bandwidth up-front, whereas
Rackspace charges less for the servers and bandwidth is usage-based.
Slicehost 2GB server w/ 1200GB bandwidth: $130/mo
Rackspace 2GB server: $88/mo + 1200GB bandwidth: $215/mo = $303/mo
(yikes)
In this case, the client only used about 800GB of bandwidth/mo
across all servers so the overall cost went down a bit.
Check your current bandwidth usage and play with the Rackspace
calculator at http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/servers/pricing/
Hopefully this gives some cost perspective, though I definitely
agree that migrating is a pain.
James
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Ken Hudson <[email protected]
> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm not sure how many of you use Slicehost like I do but I received
an email this morning informing me that they are going to "convert
current Slicehost accounts to Rackspace Cloud Servers accounts over
the next year". In other words, they're killing off Slicehost. In
my opinion, Slicehost has been just great (been a customer for at
least 4 years, I think) and from everything I hear Rackspace is
going to me more expensive. Plus I get to do a migration instead
of doing actual productive work.
Anyway, just thought I'd pass this along...
Thanks, Ken
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