FYi, My first bill on Rackspace with about 14 instances running was ~$5,900+, LOL.
On Saturday, May 19, 2012, Federico Ulfo wrote: > Thanks so much for your feedback about the distro, that helped me a lot, > so in the end I setup a Debian instance on Rackspace. Following your > suggestions I chose the one I know better. I may change it in future if any > good reason, as better performance or free cookies :) > > > > Talking about "AWS vs RackSpace", we are comparing apple from the farmer > with apple from the market, because AWS has it's own (server) farm, instead > Rackspace use Akamai, although soon they will have their own farm with > OpenStack > http://www.rackspace.com/information/mediacenter/announcements/openstack/. > > > In my opinion, the choice depends by needs and budget. For a startup in > bootstrap I could suggests Rackspace, because easy to setup and maintain > with a low price (on the paper). Amazon fit the best for company with high > traffic and budget, because AWS offers more tools and control, but needs a > dedicated system admin and is more expensive for low usage but become > "relatively" cheaper on high usage. Also they recently added Cloud Alert, > which control your bandwidth, CPU usage, but especially your bill, which > can save your wallet from a DDOS > http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html > > > Personally I've used AWS, for some websites with a million visitors, and > some personal project, and I found it very good, but little > expensive. Today I started using Rackspace on a project of mine, so far I > like it, but I'll wait the first bill to confirm :) > > > > > > > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Darryle Steplight > <dstepli...@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'dstepli...@gmail.com');> > > wrote: > >> Interesting, well I did get an email saying my server will require a >> reboot because of a maintenance issue. To quote verbatim "This >> maintenance is required due to a software issue which our vendor will >> disclose to the public in a few weeks. " . I'm curious to know if this >> is the reason why. >> >> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Ajai Khattri >> <a...@bitblit.net<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'a...@bitblit.net');>> >> wrote: >> > On Fri, 18 May 2012, Hans C. Kaspersetz wrote: >> > >> >> Were you affected by the high profile hack in March? >> >> >> http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/cloud-service-linode-hacked-bitcoin-accoun >> >> ts-emptied-030212 >> > >> > Didn't affect me at all. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Aj. >> > facebook.com/ajaikhattri >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List >> > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >> > >> > http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation >> >> >> >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------- >> "May the Source be with you." >> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >> >> http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation >> > >
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