DISCLAIMER: I am a Rackspace employee. These tests were not sanctioned by the Rackspace Cloud and were preformed on my own time independently. If you have any questions about the testing methodology don’t hesitate to ask. —– UPDATE #1: I received several comments about the testing methodology used in these benchmarks so I wanted to …
The Rackspace Cloud Control Panel – Why It’s Better
If you have been in the hosting business or simply hosting your own web sites for any length of time, you are probably familiar with the most popular commercial control panels on the market: Plesk, cPanel & Ensim. These control panels, while powerful in many respects often introduce more trouble than they are worth in …
[VIDEO] Installing JungleDisk Server Edition on Cloud Servers
Just a few weeks ago the JungleDisk team announced their entirely new product lineup including the highly anticipated server edition. For those unfamiliar, JungleDisk develops a custom backup application which can store your local system data in the Cloud on platforms like Rackspace Cloud Files or Amazon S3. It supports many advanced features such as …
Rackspace Cloud Servers vs VPS Platforms
Lately I’ve found myself in the middle of several discussions about how Rackspace Cloud Servers and other platforms like it (Amazon EC2, Linode, GoGrid, etc) differ from traditional VPS environments. While there are similarities, they are by no means the same thing. Let’s take a quick look at some of the key differentiators and advantages. …
Reselling Rackspace Cloud Servers
Yesterday my colleague, Mike Mozey, posted a great article on reselling hosting services using the Rackspace Cloud Sites platform. Since then we have received several inquiries about reselling our Cloud Servers platform so I thought I’d post some thoughts on this subject. Cloud Servers does not yet have built-in reseller functionality in our control panel …
