Anyone know why the instances lose 256MB RAM for every 4GB allocated? 3.75 (4), 7.5 (8), 15 (16), etc?
Hypervisor overhead.
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#12I thought Rackspace was dead, but then I looked it up.
It is a public company traded as Nasdaq: RXT, it still has $3B revenue per year but market cap at $600M. For comparison DigitalOcean only has $600M revenue but at $3.5B market cap.
I remember they purchased Slicehost, that was the major competitor against Linode before DO was a thing. And everything since then went down hill. I was hoping Rackspace would provide the infrastructure and BareMetal while Slicehost would be the VPS ( I think Cloud meant something different back then but I may be wrong ).
Time to buyout Rackspace and Make Slicehost Great Again /s
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#13Rackspace? Wooowww. Tonight I’m going to party like it’s 1999.
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#14theplanet.com anyone?
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#15When 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.
Wow, 2010 was a full two years after they refused to hire me. And I started a Freenet and an ISP and was a CCTLD administrator and a telco contact and somewhat Cisco guru, and managed BGP routes with experience on several unixii. My wife and I had been early customers (4 digit cust number) with a dedicated server. I showed up in San Antone just asking for an interview, they punted me to the website and never called back.
(In retrospect) THANK YOU, RACKSPACE for not trapping me with a great salary in Texas and instead forcing me to Plan B which was get any job I could get in small town OK and be able to finish raising my son and daughter.