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[nycphp-talk] EC2 vs Rackspace Cloud WAS: What Distro?

Matthew Kaufman mkfmncom at gmail.com
Sat May 19 01:46:43 EDT 2012


FYi, My first bill on Rackspace with about 14 instances running was
~$5,900+, LOL.

On Saturday, May 19, 2012, Federico Ulfo wrote:

> Thanks so much for your feedback about the distro, that helped me a lot,
> so in the end I setup a Debian instance on Rackspace. Following your
> suggestions I chose the one I know better. I may change it in future if any
> good reason, as better performance or free cookies :)
>
>
>
> Talking about "AWS vs RackSpace", we are comparing apple from the farmer
> with apple from the market, because AWS has it's own (server) farm, instead
> Rackspace use Akamai, although soon they will have their own farm with
> OpenStack
> http://www.rackspace.com/information/mediacenter/announcements/openstack/.
>
>
> In my opinion, the choice depends by needs and budget. For a startup in
> bootstrap I could suggests Rackspace, because easy to setup and maintain
> with a low price (on the paper). Amazon fit the best for company with high
> traffic and budget, because AWS offers more tools and control, but needs a
> dedicated system admin and is more expensive for low usage but become
> "relatively" cheaper on high usage. Also they recently added Cloud Alert,
> which control your bandwidth, CPU usage, but especially your bill, which
> can save your wallet from a DDOS
> http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
>
>
> Personally I've used AWS, for some websites with a million visitors, and
> some personal project, and I found it very good, but little
> expensive. Today I started using Rackspace on a project of mine, so far I
> like it, but I'll wait the first bill to confirm :)
>
>
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> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Darryle Steplight <dsteplight at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'dsteplight at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> Interesting, well I did get an email saying my server will require a
>> reboot because of a maintenance issue. To quote verbatim  "This
>> maintenance is required due to a software issue which our vendor will
>> disclose to the public in a few weeks. " . I'm curious to know if this
>> is the reason why.
>>
>> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Ajai Khattri <ajai at bitblit.net<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'ajai at bitblit.net');>>
>> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 18 May 2012, Hans C. Kaspersetz wrote:
>> >
>> >> Were you affected by the high profile hack in March?
>> >>
>> http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/cloud-service-linode-hacked-bitcoin-accoun
>> >> ts-emptied-030212
>> >
>> > Didn't affect me at all.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Aj.
>> > facebook.com/ajaikhattri
>> >
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