Connecting Things - Ross Bates » Cloud Computing http://www.rossbates.com Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:05:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Checking Out Rackspace Cloud http://www.rossbates.com/2009/12/checking-out-rackspace-cloud/ http://www.rossbates.com/2009/12/checking-out-rackspace-cloud/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:05:32 +0000 Ross http://www.rossbates.com/?p=339 Just spent an hour kicking around a Rackspace cloud server. While I have the technical abilities to manage an EC2 instance, the Rackspace setup/config was nice. Very simple and straightforward.

It didn’t take me long however to discover the lack of persistent storage. This of course led me to scour the internet thinking “surely there has to be a way.” I landed upon this post from Brad Something Something (what is your name Brad?) which provides and excellent comparison of Rackspace vs EC2 – I agree with everything he says.

I like Rackspace Cloud, it’s easy to admin,  great price/performance, but until they have something EBS/NAS like I’m going to stick with EC2 and Linode.

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What is really rocking my world is the whole concept of throw-away servers. The idea that a discrete process can spin up a new server that gets built at run time, does some work, then disappears is amazing.  I see this as turning the whole concept of linear scale on it’s head. You don’t scale an app, you scale individual threads. Powerful stuff, especially when dealing with data mining and event processing.

Much more coming soon…..

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