Re:Welcome to Performance Cloud Servers – Have Some Benchmarks
by gtaylor on Thursday November 07, 2013 @12:41AM
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I do hope the 1&2 GB types have seen performance boosts, because at $30 and $60/month respectively, you're a bit above Linode, which is pretty performance-focused. Without very good performance from this "Performance 1" tier, I suspect you'll further lose the lower end market. Though I get the perception that Rackspace isn't interested in the lower end market, given the prices for some of the higher end VMs and the dedicated boxes.
Are these charts on the previous and current performance for the 1&2GB instances visible somewhere?
"We eliminated the lowest end flavor (512) and will start with the competitively priced the 1GB flavor, while drastically increasing its performance from the previous 1 GB offering (we have charts!). This means that the price per month for a 1GB instance is now $29.20/Month ($0.04/Hr). All together? The performance you get for the new prices across all of the Performance Cloud Server flavors is amazingly competitive and a great improvement to the Rackspace portfolio."