$5,900 / 14 = $420 OK, now I'm little afraid :) how much ram they had?
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Matthew Kaufman <mkfmn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > 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> 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 >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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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