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Will be interesting to see what you get. Never bothered to benchmark there.
They bill hourly so it's not too expensive of a test.
Yup. Just never bothered.
Benchmark completed disk test and bandwidth test. doing unixbench right now looks like.
We use several of these servers at work.
Rackspace is average about disk performance.
About the processors, really low compared to most providers.
But the network is stable, and almost never goes down.
Also we have 100% hardware uptime since ALWAYS.
And well, is very very expensive.
But they have a LOT of features in addition to VPS servers.
http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2013/02/12/3MdMPp0qHBgcnpJf
@yomero that's how I feel about everything Rackspace... mediocre boring performance, but rock solid stability.
Wow.
Well, they have an enforced CPU scheduling policy =/
Unixbench is SO intense... and in my opinion, nobody must be using it.
Also, unfortunately their new openstack based servers perform worse than their previous line. AFAIK you still can create one of these from the old panel.
How can you tell that they have "an enforced CPU scheduling policy" ?
In my experience, you can use all the CPU available, but you get throttled when you use a lot and the server becomes slow... =/
Rackspace is average about disk performance.
About the processors, really low compared to most providers.
But the network is stable, and almost never goes down.
Also we have 100% hardware uptime since ALWAYS.
But they have a LOT of features in addition to VPS servers.
Their support is also very responsive at least in my experience.
Well, about this, I have a mixed opinion. Yes, the live chat is really a live chat, but some of these people doesn't have a clear idea of what they are doing, lol =(
Ah ok, Never used live chat... well maybe one time. I've used the e-mail support and had good response time. Knowledge is certainly not top tier but it was appropriate for the question asked.
You got that right. I had 256MB box there and the longest uptime was almost 450d.
we use a set of dedicated Rackspace servers at my work. Expensive, yes. 100% uptime, yes. Support that actually can fix things over the phone, yes.
In the end when you are running mission critical software it is worth it for the stability and support.
Though I love Rackspace, for non critical services I would look else where.
Wow, Rackspace must be hurting if they are getting into the LEB market.
Where it says that? o_O!
Sarcasm detector, you need one.
I am Sheldon...
Ok ok, I will excuse :P English isn't my main language
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.04251 s, 119 MB/s
Got a Softlayer cloud for $50 a month and it does about 187Mb/s really nice at softlayer
Did you get local or SAN storage? I got one with SAN and had 6 hours of unexplained downtime while a tech I wasn't allowed to speak to manually failed over my instance. I asked about credits and they pointed me to a large SLA I couldn't be bothered to read. $50 wasted.
Softlayer is a damn ripoff.
Well I am on there trial at this time, But I think the storage was local but seems really nice, There panel is nice as well some really cool features like you can SWIP an ip in seconds to your details. I noticed there support does lack a little dedication as I think they have about 40 windows loaded at the same time.
@MonsteR but for the price Softlayer charges support shouldn't have 40 windows loaded at the same time!
Yeah they shouldn't but I can think of loads of places that can do stuff better and have chosen the cheaper route shame really but they do have good service.
I figured since somebody was posting benchmarks of a VPS on a forum specifically for LEBs this thread would be related to LEBs.
@KuJoe just thought it was an interesting comparison to a LEB.