Comments on: Performance Problems for Rackspace Cloud

By: jim

jim — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:06:32 +0000

Funny (but not really), this is an old article but the same thing just happened this week. i’ve been really unimpressed with the performance of my (admittedly pretty small — 1024mb) cloud server instances. 10+ second page loads on a Drupal site. Awesome. Glad we’re giving demos to investors this week. I’m over it, Rackspace, i’m moving on.

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:56:35 +0000

If you actually want a fast website for your clients with nearly zero downtime use a company that has enterprise solutions like Carpthia Hosting. Rackspace has lost all my trust.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:20:57 +0000

RS Cloud Sites does not use virtual machines.

When you have thousands of poorly written cron jobs the storage will be affected and it’s the most non impacting way of lowering the load on the storage.

RS Cloud Servers are not being affected by Cloud Site issues. Noone logs into your Cloud Server except for you.

By: Guy Hammer

Guy Hammer — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:24:33 +0000

Rackspace has likely oversubscribed the platform — and if they are running CRON jobs on the platform, then it is likely based on the Xen hypervisor, which has fewer high-availability features compared to VMware ESX. I am familiar with these technologies because my firm builds private VM solutions for clients who require a higher level of security and performance. Although ESX is more expensive, we chose it over Xen because of the the enhanced high-availability capabilities.

By: jwb

jwb — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:40:12 +0000

Wow, I really, really, really don’t want my cloud provider reaching into my servers and shutting off my processes. Their intervention should end at gracefully shutting off my instances, not monkeying around with their operating systems.

By: Dan Landrum

Dan Landrum — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:29:05 +0000

We’re a very small, niche business that chooses to spend more for a service like RackSpace so that we can deliver a fast website to our clients with nearly zero downtime. These outages are killing us too. It isn’t just the downtime, it is what it does to our customer base, like Don said, it is hard enough to establish trust. We then have to expend scarce time explaining what happened to our users.

To add insult to injury, did anyone see the email from RackSpace today announcing a $50 monthly increase, and the reasons why? It said in part.
“We felt it was necessary to update prices for new customers to reflect the value provided from the service, while still remaining very competitive versus other cloud platform as a service offerings.”

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:17:09 +0000

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By: Don

Don — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:17:04 +0000

These issues at RackspaceCloud are killing me. Today, was the delivery date of an important nat’l client. Well, I will see if they trust my firm to handle their web affairs after multiple days of nothing. I can’t tweak or show anything and their staff meeting is today. Crap!!!