Re:Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts
by ronilan on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @06:11PM
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You don't. I just moved a WP multisite from Rackspace Cloud to AWS. Load times down 50%. Cost down 90%. Hosting is not, and has never been, an easy business.
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Re:Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts
by FireBeyond on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @06:47PM
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That seems off. It's been 2 or so years now, but I worked for a company that had a five digit monthly bill from both Rackspace and AWS, and our costs to migrate from one to the other were within 15% when we did the math.
90% seems way off. AWS is known for not being cheap (neither is Rackspace), but I highly doubt that Rackspace was ten times the price of Amazon.
Re:Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts
by samstave on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @07:00PM
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Refactor code to handle spot loss and then go with much larger spot instances??
Re:Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts
by FireBeyond on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @08:44PM
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I could see that true. I forgot that my (now ex-) employer was for whatever reasons averse to reserved, let alone spots.
Re:Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts
by samstave on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @10:48PM
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To clarify, in all liklihood - you would be doing top tier on spot, and then 2nd and third via other methods... but there are ways to get a system to really handle spot loss...
There are MANY applications that simply are too complex to handle such an arch... so, - do so, when you can, but know when that's just stupid.... stacks are like snowflakes, we LOVE them to death, or we love them to DEATH...
Re:Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts
by iamabraham on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @07:33PM
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Uh, AWS is absolutely known for being cheap. I'm in the hosting business as well and our AWS offerings are a fraction of the cost of other solutions, especially when you consider what you get.