Comments on: Cloud hosting with the Rackspace Cloud

By: JS

JS — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:36:57 +0000

Rackspace just called to say I had to move and be out by Mar 15th because there are too many requests. They could not say which website was too much. We are within the limits of the agreement. Strange. I am not given any metrics to know what to adjust, or offload, or anything other than move. They said that about 60 sites are too busy for them. Sure surprised me. The cost of moving is not trivial considering working with FTP.
I have a very large investment in time and effort moving sites to Rackspace.

By: Jim Carter

Jim Carter — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:15:51 +0000

TRC simply has a 30second cap on HTTP requests through the load balancer. Where it’s annoying it’s not a brick wall. All you need to do is run your larger scripts via ajax in the session and kick off a heartbeat (do a quick ping with a script that runs every 10-20 seconds) to fulfill the LB’s data request. A Rack support rep told me you could have a script take up to two hours or more as long as the balancer gets some kind of data. It’s not perfect but it’s also there to protect the platform.

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By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:43:27 +0000

I use rackspacecloud.com for hosting as well. To get around the ssh problem with wget I use the php exec() command. Its a big help when transferring big files between servers.

exec(‘wget http://mydomain.com/myfile.mov‘);

By: Aaron D. Campbell

Aaron D. Campbell — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:06:00 +0000

I see what link you’re talking about now. I thought you meant there was one in the article. You meant the Layered Technologies one in my comment. I copied/pasted from the footer of this site (my site) when I did it, and if you think it undermines my credibility then I’m sorry, but nothing will be changing anytime soon.

I personally would like to move this site over to 100% affiliate style income, and get rid of the ads in the sidebar and the Google Ads in the posts.

By: revive

revive — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:59:38 +0000

Ahh.. yes, that would be an affiliate link my friend, whether you’re ‘with them’ or not.. a direct link works just as well, if not better, and doesn’t undermine a posters credibility.
(when if goes to a shareasale.com, one of the largest affiliate networks around, that’s what you call them)

By: Aaron D. Campbell

Aaron D. Campbell — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:59:24 +0000

Yeah, I had roughly the same experience (give or take)

By: Aaron D. Campbell

Aaron D. Campbell — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:55:09 +0000

First of all, there are no affiliate links in there. If you want to enter the code to get a discount, feel free. I no longer get anything out of it because I’m no longer with them.

Second, it’s not “cheap” to have affiliate links on a site like this. It has to pay for itself somehow. My time and my costs should be reimbursed.

By: Happy Now

Happy Now — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:37:14 +0000

We’ve moved our newest site from Mosso, and others we own, over to a smallish but seriously customer-centric hosting company named Revive Marketing.

Their servers run under Liquid Webs Tier 4 datacenter roofs, have the best Bandwidth providers and their service is second to none. We’re truly looking forward to launching our new site with them.. and refer everyone we know to them.

check em out: (no, this is NOT an affiliate link!)
http://revivemarketing.org/host.php