> Nothing since I left. But when I was on them my box was being super > slow. My cursor would take forever to blink every now and then when I > was coding in VIM. I called RS customer support and nobody had a solid > answer for me or explanation. I just had to wait it out. After three > times of that happening within the first month I left Rackspace. > > > > I manage over a hundred cloud instances with Rackspace without a > > problem. What are you encountering?
I'm going through a preliminary comparison of Amazon and Rackspace clouds myself. I've been with EC2 and they've been ok, however, the problems arise on the lower-end instances. Medium/large work well (I use mostly large) but they're not very cheap, yet they're very often much more power than is needed for your average site. So, I've been trying out a couple of micro instances, but they are basically useless - think along the lines of entering single user mode in Linux and still not having enough CPU resources. Even compiling PHP can be a very long undertaking. So I've been in search for that sweet spot - somewhere in the middle, that's cheap, yet functional. I've been playing with Rackspace instances (the smallest one) and while the storage and RAM is of course small, the CPU doesn't seem as cut-down as with EC2 micro. I can compile normally, etc. So while the jury is still out, I'm liking Rackspace so far for these low-end sites/instances. Anyone have similar experiences or thoughts? H _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation
