When I worked at rackspace in 2016/2017 we couldn't even internally get a critical Openstack server reprovisioned after it was accidentally given 4GB of disk instead of 4GB of ram and would break when it ran out of disk space. Nobody knew how to reprovision it and the company's internal documentation wasn't accurate so the server malingered around with its unnecessarily large 64GB memory pool.
I think it’s pretty sad what happened to Rackspace. Around 2010 they had a truly awesome service and support and an API that was well designed. Openstack seemed like a great idea. AWS, GCP and Azure killed it off and all their talent jumped ship or were laid off. Pity really that it never came to anything. As far as I’m now concerned it’s dead and I would t risk anything on it.
Do I understand correctly that this will also change the price while I am using it? So if I get a server now at $1/h and run it overnight can the price jump so that the price will actually be $2/h?
From what I'm reading in the documentation [1], it's broadly similar to AWS spot pricing. You bid the maximum that you want to pay, and get charged based on the current market price. If the market price exceeds your bid, you get kicked off - so your bid sets a ceiling on your costs.
I thought Rackspace was dead, but then I looked it up.
It is a public company traded as Nasdaq: RXT, it still has $3B revenue per year but market cap at $600M. For comparison DigitalOcean only has $600M revenue but at $3.5B market cap.
I remember they purchased Slicehost, that was the major competitor against Linode before DO was a thing. And everything since then went down hill. I was hoping Rackspace would provide the infrastructure and BareMetal while Slicehost would be the VPS ( I think Cloud meant something different back then but I may be wrong ).
Time to buyout Rackspace and Make Slicehost Great Again /s
chaps|1 year ago
Just sayin'.
junto|1 year ago
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wmf|1 year ago
SahAssar|1 year ago
Or is the price at purchase locked in?
duskwuff|1 year ago
[1]: https://spot.rackspace.com/docs/
RantyDave|1 year ago
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hyperliner|1 year ago
I am not talking of managed services, but infrastructure services.
This feels like a Japanese soldier in the jungle still shooting left over ammo after the war has been over for more than 10 years.
ksec|1 year ago
It is a public company traded as Nasdaq: RXT, it still has $3B revenue per year but market cap at $600M. For comparison DigitalOcean only has $600M revenue but at $3.5B market cap.
I remember they purchased Slicehost, that was the major competitor against Linode before DO was a thing. And everything since then went down hill. I was hoping Rackspace would provide the infrastructure and BareMetal while Slicehost would be the VPS ( I think Cloud meant something different back then but I may be wrong ).
Time to buyout Rackspace and Make Slicehost Great Again /s