Rackspace launches Performance Cloud Servers

Re:Rackspace launches Performance Cloud Servers by oijaf888 on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @03:05AM (#6673845)

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/pricing/ (scroll down a bit) has the pricing, they start at $0.68/hr for 15GB of ram, 40gb ssd system disk, 150gb ssd data disk and 4 vcpus. Significantly cheaper (however with lower specs) than the cheapest Amazon offering with an SSD ($3.10/hr I believe).

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Re:Rackspace launches Performance Cloud Servers by ilaksh on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @04:49AM (#6674231)

That's $480 per month. That might be competitive against AWS, but a 16gb Linode is $320 and 16gb Digital Ocean is only $160. Why would I want to pay so much more for Rackspace's? Or is this only for people who don't know that services other than AWS exist?

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Re:Rackspace launches Performance Cloud Servers by josephlord on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @05:16AM (#6674297)

That pricing is the "performance 2" group. The "performance 1" group starts at:

$0.04/hr for 1 GB RAM, 20GB SSD system disk, 1 vcpu.

That is about $30/month. More than Digital Ocean but a much cheaper entry point than the prices you listed.

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Re:Rackspace launches Performance Cloud Servers by ilaksh on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @06:44AM (#6682188)

OK but not only is Digital Ocean a lot cheaper but so is Linode. Does the Rackspace server have a better CPU, or am I paying for better support supposedly, or what?

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Re:Rackspace launches Performance Cloud Servers by josephlord on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @09:48AM (#6682908)

I haven't tested all the providers heavily enough relative performances or support realities to know and I wasn't contradicting you but the parent post listing incorrect entry pricing for the performance models.

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