Tell HN: Rackspace apparently lost some storage volumes

Re:Tell HN: Rackspace apparently lost some storage volumes by christophilus on Saturday October 17, 2020 @02:10PM (#24811898)

Careful with DigitalOcean, though. I had my entire account frozen (and all servers stopped) for an hour due to spinning up dedicated CPU instances to do some video transcoding.

Fortunately for us, we don't have anything mission-critical on DigitalOcean. Running a similar load on Vultr (high frequency CPU nodes) simply got us a polite email asking us to switch to dedicated nodes, which we happily did.

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Re:Tell HN: Rackspace apparently lost some storage volumes by japhyr on Sunday October 18, 2020 @12:16PM (#24818912)

Did I understand this right, that they stopped your servers because you spun up some dedicated CPU instances? Isn't that what you're supposed to do?

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Re:Tell HN: Rackspace apparently lost some storage volumes by ajsharp on Saturday October 17, 2020 @05:03PM (#24813352)

Appreciate this anecdote. I tested their new PaaS recently and found the build times to be ungodly slow, much more so than Heroku.

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