Cloud Hosting (Amazon EC2, Rackspace etc), help please?

Re:Cloud Hosting (Amazon EC2, Rackspace etc), help please? by curt on Monday April 18, 2011 @06:09PM (#2460942)

Just set up a cloud server on rackspace and it was my first time ever. Needed help on a few occasions and the people manning their live chat were extremely helpful. Took me a day to get everything online, setup, secured, and working without any previous experience (apache, mysql, mail server, smtp relay, etc).

What I really like is that fact that I can increase the size of my foot print in a few minutes. Since I'm starting to do PR and marketing this week if anything catches on, not to worried about experiencing server problems.

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Re:Cloud Hosting (Amazon EC2, Rackspace etc), help please? by chrislomax on Monday April 18, 2011 @06:13PM (#2460955)

Yeah I love this about EC2. I read an article this week that Rackspace hosting can take around 1.5 times more load than their EC2 counterpart.

It is all a cost saving exercise though and Rackspace to me has always = massive costs.

I'll speak to the guy who responded earlier though to see what they can do.

I do love all this cloud stuff though. I personally setup all my dedicated servers last and I know what involved, its a pain in the ass. If I could minimise that then that would be great.

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