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Post by duskwuff »

SahAssar wrote: post #2

Do I understand correctly that this will also change the price while I am using it? So if I get a server now at $1/h and run it overnight can the price jump so that the price will actually be $2/h? Or is the price at purchase locked in?

From what I'm reading in the documentation [1], it's broadly similar to AWS spot pricing. You bid the maximum that you want to pay, and get charged based on the current market price. If the market price exceeds your bid, you get kicked off - so your bid sets a ceiling on your costs.

[1]: https://spot.rackspace.com/docs/

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Post by chaps »

When I worked at rackspace in 2016/2017 we couldn't even internally get a critical Openstack server reprovisioned after it was accidentally given 4GB of disk instead of 4GB of ram and would break when it ran out of disk space. Nobody knew how to reprovision it and the company's internal documentation wasn't accurate so the server malingered around with its unnecessarily large 64GB memory pool.

Just sayin'.

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Post by ethbr1 »

chaps wrote: post #4

When I worked at rackspace in 2016/2017 we couldn't even internally get a critical Openstack server reprovisioned after it was accidentally given 4GB of disk instead of 4GB of ram and would break when it ran out of disk space. Nobody knew how to reprovision it and the company's internal documentation wasn't accurate so the server malingered around with its unnecessarily large 64GB memory pool. Just sayin'.

There are worse interviewee questions than "Give me an overview of how you'd get a server provisioned"

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Post by chaps »

ethbr1 wrote: post #5
chaps wrote: post #4

When I worked at rackspace in 2016/2017 we couldn't even internally get a critical Openstack server reprovisioned after it was accidentally given 4GB of disk instead of 4GB of ram and would break when it ran out of disk space. Nobody knew how to reprovision it and the company's internal documentation wasn't accurate so the server malingered around with its unnecessarily large 64GB memory pool. Just sayin'.

There are worse interviewee questions than "Give me an overview of how you'd get a server provisioned"

Flip it around -- I would consider it to be a large red flag if the company behind Openstack was unable to use Openstack because of brain drain and infrastructure rot.

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Post by junto »

chaps wrote: post #4

When I worked at rackspace in 2016/2017 we couldn't even internally get a critical Openstack server reprovisioned after it was accidentally given 4GB of disk instead of 4GB of ram and would break when it ran out of disk space. Nobody knew how to reprovision it and the company's internal documentation wasn't accurate so the server malingered around with its unnecessarily large 64GB memory pool. Just sayin'.

I think it’s pretty sad what happened to Rackspace. Around 2010 they had a truly awesome service and support and an API that was well designed. Openstack seemed like a great idea. AWS, GCP and Azure killed it off and all their talent jumped ship or were laid off. Pity really that it never came to anything. As far as I’m now concerned it’s dead and I would t risk anything on it.

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Post by neverartful »

junto wrote: post #7
chaps wrote: post #4

When I worked at rackspace in 2016/2017 we couldn't even internally get a critical Openstack server reprovisioned after it was accidentally given 4GB of disk instead of 4GB of ram and would break when it ran out of disk space. Nobody knew how to reprovision it and the company's internal documentation wasn't accurate so the server malingered around with its unnecessarily large 64GB memory pool. Just sayin'.

I think it’s pretty sad what happened to Rackspace. Around 2010 they had a truly awesome service and support and an API that was well designed. Openstack seemed like a great idea. AWS, GCP and Azure killed it off and all their talent jumped ship or were laid off. Pity really that it never came to anything. As far as I’m now concerned it’s dead and I would t risk anything on it.

I worked onsite at 'the castle' in San Antonio as an Intel employee as part of the OSIC (OpenStack Innovation Center) collaboration between Intel and Rackspace. There was a tremendous amount of OpenStack talent there at the time. I hated working there because of the noise and distractions, but it was awesome to have some of the OpenStack talent there to speak with in person.
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