Connecting Things - Ross Bates » rackspace 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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