WHAT THE HELL, RACKSPACE?!<p>You emailed me just because I semi-filled in your form? I didn't even click SUBMIT! o_O<p>Why would you assume that if I semi-filled a form I would probably go ahead and register? Maybe I don't want to register at this very moment?<p>Did you even consider that my NOT submitting the form was a conscious decision? Maybe I realized halfway through filling the form that my skill-set wasn't good enough to make me want to sign up now? Or my finances wouldn't allow me to maintain an account on your platform after six months? Or maybe, just maybe, I just didn't want to sign up right now?<p>Why would you take my email ID from a non-submit-clicked form and NOT tell me that you had taken it? Why? o_O<p>Even worse, why would you email me asking 'did I forget to take my cloud'? How do I know you are not going to spam me with your promotional offers in the future? How do Iknow you are not going to sell (or worse, 'inadvertently leak') my email address to some third party?
We're not a competitor and are not in this space, so I hope it's not untoward to note that we (rsync.net) also have a FOSS/.edu/dev/HN discount:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5640700" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5640700</a><p>... so after you've got your environment up and running at rackspace (or wherever) you can get a similar discount for offsite backups.
Pretty nifty.<p>One thing, while I have the ears of you Rackspace people: offer more documentation maybe? Kind of like how Linode does: <a href="https://library.linode.com/" rel="nofollow">https://library.linode.com/</a> Common things like how to run a mail server, how to get a LAMP/LEMP/LNPP/$XYZ setup going on, etc. Not full books or anything, just stuff to get things off the ground more easily when playing around. This is one of the reasons why I was so attracted to Linode, the docs, and the support whenever I'd join their IRC channel. It was good stuff, to get things running even though this is not my field by trade.
The article mentions Salt and Ansible - if you're interested in these new generation config management tools, check out my book which launches tomorrow: "Taste Test: Puppet, Chef, Salt, Ansible"<p><a href="http://devopsu.com/books/taste-test-puppet-chef-salt-stack-ansible.html" rel="nofollow">http://devopsu.com/books/taste-test-puppet-chef-salt-stack-a...</a><p>In the book, I implement an identical project with each tool so you can see what each one is like to work with.<p>I definitely had some big surprises when writing the book. Spoiler: Ansible was by far the simplest, easiest to understand, and quickest to get up and going.<p>To get a discount for the book release, just sign up on the mailing list: <a href="http://devopsu.com/books/taste-test-puppet-chef-salt-stack-ansible.html" rel="nofollow">http://devopsu.com/books/taste-test-puppet-chef-salt-stack-a...</a>
I use Azure VMs but this post got me to check out your pricing again. You're not as expensive as I remember. In fact you look right in line with Azure and EC2.<p>Looks like with this program you can get a free 1 GB Linux or almost free 1 GB Windows server for 6 months anyway. Thanks for the program - it put you back on my radar.
I have to say here that I've been impressed with both the price and performance of Cloudfiles.<p>I was using S3+Cloudfront for a long time and with cloudfiles my bills pretty much HALVED.<p>What made the difference ?
GET request pricing. Amazon S3 charges for each get request on an object, so with millions of requests on small objects, you get hit pretty hard.<p>Also, Akamai seems to be really fast :)
6 months/$300 credit - similar to the AWS 1 year free usage <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/free/" rel="nofollow">http://aws.amazon.com/free/</a>. Rackspace needs to upgrade their underlying years old AMD 4170/2374 hardware for cloud servers. This is a limitation for vertical scaling, and doesn't compare well to EC2/GCE/HP.
What are the odds on making a very low power machine, in the 96-128 MB of RAM, for say, $1-$3/month? I like RS (have been a customer since 2008) but the minimum service is still overkill for what I like to do. I use other services like buyvm.net for low-cost machines.
Our student group has been in the Rackspace Startup Program, where it receives a similar discount every month. Looking at the billing records, I want to point out that the way Rackspace runs the accounting is a bit oddly - they charge my credit card the full amount, then issue a refund a few days later. On my statement, it surprised me to see a charge- keep this in mind, especially if you intend to stay under $50/month and do not anticipate charges.
Only US and UK at the moment, any chance to showing us devs down under in Australia some love?<p>Edit: Especially since there are now .au Rackspace data centres!
Is this Discount available for a limited time only or on all future signups?<p>I'm about to finish a project and travel for a couple of weeks so I don't anticipate myself using it anytime within the next month. As a result, if this discount is not expiring, I'd prefer delaying the signup by a month =)
The discount says it doesn't apply to cloud sites or managed cloud, but on the signup page I only see options for cloud account or managed cloud. If I select Cloud Account, will the discount still apply?