Rackspace Reduces Cloud Files Storage Price by 33%

Amazon S3 has a more competitive outgoing bandwidth pricing. That works out best for me (lots of small files with small overall storage size but consume lots of bandwidth).<p>You need to ask yourself, what is your main use case? More often than not, if your use case is a web service serving up files over HTTP then Amazon is more competitive. I would say bandwidth would be the greater consideration in most cases for web services.<p>All of their comparison calculations (<a href="http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/files/compare/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/files/...</a>) also include "AWS Gold Support" (which costs an extra $400+/month).

I often get intermittent SSL errors when speaking to the Rackspace API via python:<p>ssl.SSLError: The read operation timed out<p>I'm not the only one:<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=SSLError+The+read+operation+timed+out+rackspace+cloudfiles" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=SSLError+The+read+operation+...</a><p>It's not that bad since I just retry it but it's one of the things that makes me wonder what is going on at Rackspace.

I hate to seem ungrateful, but I just wish their bandwidth costs would come down a bit. That said, this is much-appreciated.<p>The object versioning system seems interesting if you haven't rolled your own yet, though I wonder how relying on it might affect your ability to migrate to Amazon.

How long do people think it will take Amazon to match or beat this pricing drop?

This is good news. It seems to me that Rackspace Cloud services don't get much publicity compared to AWS, which is a shame. RS is a good alternative and their tech support is great.

There are several backup solutions available in the Rackspace Cloud Tools program: <a href="http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/tools/category/applications/cloud-files-partners/rackspace-files-online-backup/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/tools/category/applications/c...</a><p>You can leverage these with Rackspace Cloud Files.

Is there any backup software similar to Arq[0] that uses Rackspace?<p>[0] Arq: <a href="http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/" rel="nofollow">http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/</a>

I just wish Amazon and Rackspace would lower the price of RAM on their cloud servers