{"id":594,"date":"2009-03-13T11:04:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T15:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/?p=594"},"modified":"2013-10-18T16:44:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T20:44:06","slug":"rackspace-announces-cloud-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2009\/03\/13\/rackspace-announces-cloud-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rackspace Announces Cloud Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Rackspace, one of the largest web hosting companies going, went and bought a few smaller companies to add to its stable of cloud-based offerings, which to that point had consisted of Mosso. One of these was Jungle Disk, which I use for backups and file storage on Amazon S3. The other was Slicehost.<\/p>\n<p>Mosso&#8217;s offerings were pretty straight-forward. For $100 a month you got a server you could develop your application on in a variety of languages and they would automatically handle scaling your app as needed. We tried it out for a bit and it worked well and as advertised.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Rackspace announced several new offerings, but one in particular caught my eye &#8211; their Cloud Servers product.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cloud Servers will be priced per instance hour and will start at $0.015 per hour ($10.95 for a full month of usage). Since you only pay by the hour, it will be really easy and affordable to spin up a new instance for testing or development\u2014and then simply remove it when you&#8217;re done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>$11 a month for a cloud server with 256 MB of RAM and 10GB storage space? Sign me up right this second. These servers will be available starting Monday, March 16. I will try them out and report back how they are. Here are additional costs and specs. Click for a larger version.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how Amazon will respond to this?<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about their cloud servers and Rackspace&#8217;s other announcements <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mosso.com\/2009\/03\/breaking-news-mosso-the-rackspace-cloud-announces-availability-of-cloud-servers-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Rackspace, one of the largest web hosting companies going, went and bought a few smaller companies to add to its stable of cloud-based offerings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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