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The author is chronically unhappy with everything (apparently Amazon EC2 also sucks). Complexity of the password for his account? A checkbox? Really?

Rackspace is a great company with strong ties to developing open source software. They are reliable and professional. Amazon EC2 is also an excellent service. I use both.

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I'm actually overjoyed to be living in a world where companies like Rackspace and Amazon are possible, it still blows my mind that I can rent a hundred machine cluster for $10 an hour.

I wrote up the article at the end of a long and frustrating day, and looking back on it, the tone's all wrong. I still stand by the content, but it needs way more context and the equivalent of smileys surrounding it.

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