Rackspace Cloud Servers outperform Amazon EC2

I signed up for Rackspace Cloud Servers because I've been more used to traditional hosting, and switching to AWS would (I believe) have been a step too far for my abilities at the time, and I have to say, it's been nothing but great.

The knowledge that there's a really good customer service team behind you is comforting when you're bootstrapping, and the ease of getting a new instance running is great!

As for the results of the test - I'm surprised somewhat. I don't know why, but with the number of startups using AWS, I would have thought it'd have been the better choice for performance issues (maybe the number of startups using them is the problem).

The cost comparison at the end is interesting for Cloud Servers vs EC2, but it does appear that S3 can be cheaper for a lot of people than Cloud Files when at scale.