Competent Cloud provider required

ghoti said:
Okay, now I understand their vps cloud hosting prices better. http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/pricing/


Its not bad, but the introduction video confused me a bit. The big dude says that you need to use multiple nodes for best redundancy? He implied you need to pay for and set it up yourself. I might have been misunderstanding him because Im not familiar with the rackspace cloud. I can see great advantages in the support this cloud comes with. It looks very good. However, I dont need that type of support. I need the most stable cloud I can find.
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Problem is "cloud" means everything to everyone. So forget about "cloud" for a second. Rackspace offers several things, two that are confused here:

Cloud Sites - they host your site on their multi-server-ha-redundant-auto-scaling-rocket-boosters-attached infrastructure. It's like virtual hosting but isolated and on steroids. The gdgt.com live blog runs on it, i.e. quiet site that gets massive traffic spikes when events happen. Check out this article on how they deal with Apple events:

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/how-g...an-11-million-updates-in-less-than-two-hours/

It's quite expensive but you get what you pay for: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/sites/pricing/

Cloud Servers - ordinary virtual servers running on a vmware/xen/kvm/whatever hypervisors. I don't know what sort of of redundancy there is in the back-end, but I have a number of cloud servers and they've never gone down or suffer the horrible performance problems I had with other hosts. They don't overcommit their infrastructure like most hosts I've used.
 
koffiejunkie said:
Problem is "cloud" means everything to everyone. So forget about "cloud" for a second. Rackspace offers several things, two that are confused here:

Cloud Sites - they host your site on their multi-server-ha-redundant-auto-scaling-rocket-boosters-attached infrastructure. It's like virtual hosting but isolated and on steroids. The gdgt.com live blog runs on it, i.e. quiet site that gets massive traffic spikes when events happen. Check out this article on how they deal with Apple events:

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/how-g...an-11-million-updates-in-less-than-two-hours/

It's quite expensive but you get what you pay for: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/sites/pricing/

Cloud Servers - ordinary virtual servers running on a vmware/xen/kvm/whatever hypervisors. I don't know what sort of of redundancy there is in the back-end, but I have a number of cloud servers and they've never gone down or suffer the horrible performance problems I had with other hosts. They don't overcommit their infrastructure like most hosts I've used.
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Yeah, I saw their cloud server pricing (couple of posts later I post the link to the pricing). Its not financially worthwhile for me. The cloud infrastructure I host on has super redundancy at a reasonable price. So Im happy with that.
 
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Rackspace has full failover, if physical hardware issue causes a fault on the cloud, it falls over to other hardware. I've had a few notices about RAM/Hard Drive failures before warning me there might be an issue, but my servers stayed alive all the time.

Their new gen cloud servers allows you to add disk space without upgrading the VM, so you can run a 256mb instance and add a few hundred gb disk with no problem.
 
My only concern running with a provider overseas is lag and delay. Take into account how often seacom breaks makes it worse. Remember the computer user only see's whats in front of him or her. Thanks to our cloud server crashing they have 0 confidence in cloud computing. So I will need a local provider. RSAweb seems to have some big clients as well.
 
I can personally remove Rackspace from my list of competent VPS providers. Their "next-gen" cloud does not allow for a vps that has multiple IPs. This is pretty doff.

Also, since I last mentioned Virpus.. they go down more often than a cheap ho. Dont use them.
 
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