Matt thanks for point that out, with your correction now I feel even more happy to have choose Rackspace for my project. I found funny that both AWS and RS didn't fix many of the issues you listed in your article one year ago!
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Matthew Kaufman <mkfmn...@gmail.com> wrote: > It was a wide range, with 2 being maxed out I believe, but still - I > couldn't even quantify the costs. I used a TON of bandwidth and it didn't > even register on my bill really. > > > On Saturday, May 19, 2012, Federico Ulfo wrote: > >> $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- <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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