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Re:We're moving. Goodbye Rackspace. by suhail on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @02:22AM (#1885704)
Because we're not made of gold and we're a startup.
Re:We're moving. Goodbye Rackspace. by jamesgolick on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @02:43AM (#1885745)
If you weren't paying such an enormous premium for your hardware, you'd have a lot more cash. On a per-dollar basis, you're paying anywhere from 2-10x the price for computing power on the cloud, depending on which resource you look at (CPU, Memory, Disk IOPS, etc).

Seriously. Do the benchmarks.