I've never been a rackspace fan, since way back in the day. Way expensive and I never liked the managed hosting space. However, I believe the jungle disk and slicehost acquisitions are very smart moves. JD was one of the first (might have been THE first actually) to provide a synch/backup client for S3 when it was introduced. Smart people, good idea, and the technology isn't going away. If they keep the people they'll be an asset. Slicehost has a great image in the hacker community and I love their documentation.<p>Both companies fit nicely in the cloud space, an VPS is definitely the future. Rackspace is giving an ear to some smart engineers in their camp, which I think is great and kinda googlish. They've got my attention now, for what that's worth.