Re:Techcrunch moves from Rackspace to Wordpress Hosting
by seldo on Monday February 08, 2010 @03:24PM
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A friend's startup used Rackspace Cloud for all of two weeks. It's a really strange product. It pretends to be a cloud service but it's really just Yet Another Shared Host, only more expensive. After their account got suspended without notification for exceeding their "processor cycles" limit (wtf?) they bailed.
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Re:Techcrunch moves from Rackspace to Wordpress Hosting
by jasonlbaptiste on Monday February 08, 2010 @03:44PM
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we used them for publictivity. though they say they could scale, they couldn't handle what we had for our duplicate contacts processing algorithm. Everytime it would run, we started to get: no suitable nodes to serve your request. I took this as: "we can't scale to meet your demand".
Re:Techcrunch moves from Rackspace to Wordpress Hosting
by andr on Monday February 08, 2010 @05:08PM
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It's worth highlighting the difference between Rackspace Cloud Servers (aka Slicehost) and Rackspace Cloud Sites (aka Mosso). The former is pretty good and reasonably priced. The latter is not.
Re:Techcrunch moves from Rackspace to Wordpress Hosting
by yesimahuman on Monday February 08, 2010 @06:35PM
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Are you referring to Cloud Servers or sites?
I am finding Cloud Servers to be a great system, especially when you have load balancing and backend servers that don't use any non-local bandwidth. at $10/mo for a 256MB slice compared to $20/mo for slicehost, it is a good deal if you need a lot of small workers.
Re:Techcrunch moves from Rackspace to Wordpress Hosting
by jcromartie on Monday February 08, 2010 @03:36PM
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Upgrade to a Platinum account for 2875910101401600 dedicated processor cycles per month!