Announcing Rackspace Cloud Monitoring Private Beta(rackspace.com)

38 pointsby ddispaltro15 lat temu8 comments

Announcing Rackspace Cloud Monitoring Private Beta

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2011/12/15/announcing-rackspace-cloud-monitoring-private-beta/

3 comments

mocko15 lat temu

I've been using Rackspace cloud for a couple of clients and reckon they're lagging far behind Amazon and the other providers. They've bet the farm on the OpenStack project but given the number of players involved (over a hundred!) the pace of progress is glacial. It lacks really fundamental features (no private backend network, no elastic load balancing, no [public] support for elastic IP's) and these problems make it a pain to use for all but small projects.

In fact the only reasons I can think of to recommend it right now are the generous pricing and the way their cloud instances are more VPS-ish (i.e. unlikely to lose local state) than EC2's.

jarito15 lat temu

They do have load balancing (http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/loadba...).

mocko15 lat temu

Yes, they do have load balancing. But not elastic load balancing - there's no automated way to scale the size of your platform in response to load. So you end up futzing around with a bunch of scripts to do this and inevitably do it it badly.

SquareWheel15 lat temu

Why is it that any website with a fixed element on the screen is so damn laggy?

Noughmad15 lat temu

Old browser? Works fine with Firefox 8.

SquareWheel15 lat temu

Rather sluggish in Chrome beta here. I've always found this to be the case, though. Twitter, Gawkers's redesign, etc.

xorl15 lat temu

Loading fine here in chrome dev 17.

goodweeds15 lat temu

So .. Cloudkick rebranded?