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

Federico Ulfo rainelemental at gmail.com
Sat May 19 02:27:23 EDT 2012


Matt thanks for point that out, with your correction now I feel even more
happy to have choose Rackspace for my project.
I found funny that both AWS and RS didn't fix many of the issues you listed
in your article one year ago!

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Matthew Kaufman <mkfmncom at gmail.com> wrote:

> It was a wide range, with 2 being maxed out I believe, but still - I
> couldn't even quantify the costs.  I used a TON of bandwidth and it didn't
> even register on my bill really.
>
>
> On Saturday, May 19, 2012, Federico Ulfo wrote:
>
>> $5,900 / 14 = $420
>> OK, now I'm little afraid :)
>>
>> how much ram they had?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Matthew Kaufman <mkfmncom at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> 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 :)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Darryle Steplight <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> 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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