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Rackspace increases cloud rates by 22%

10 pointssarkedev9 comments

I haven't seen anything in the news or online, but I noticed our invoices were noticeably higher lately. I did a comparison with 2 months ago:

    | SERVICE              | NAME                        | UNIT     |   BEFORE |     AFTER | CHANGE  |
    |----------------------|-----------------------------|----------|---------:|----------:|---------|
    | Cloud Bandwidth      | Load Balancer Bandwidth Out | GB       |     0.12 |    0.1464 | +22.00% |
    | Cloud Bandwidth      | NG Server Bandwidth Out     | GB       |     0.12 |    0.1464 | +22.00% |
    | Cloud Block Storage  | CBS Volume                  | GB_HRS   | 0.000164 |    0.0002 | +21.95% |
    | Cloud CDN Bandwidth  | Files CDN Bandwidth         | GB       |     0.12 |    0.1464 | +22.00% |
    | Cloud Database       | Database Compute            | HOURS    |     0.12 |    0.1464 | +22.00% |
    | Cloud Database       | Database Storage            | GB_HRS   | 0.001027 | 0.0012529 | +22.00% |
    | Cloud Files          | Files Storage               | GB       |      0.1 |     0.122 | +22.00% |
    | Cloud Load Balancers | Load Balancer Connections   | CONN_HRS |    0.015 |    0.0183 | +22.00% |
    | Cloud Load Balancers | LoadBalancer Uptime         | HOURS    |    0.015 |    0.0183 | +22.00% |
    | Cloud Servers        | Server Image                | GB       |      0.1 |     0.122 | +22.00% |
    | Cloud Servers        | (server type 1)             | HOURS    |     0.16 |    0.1952 | +22.00% |
    | Cloud Servers        | (server type 2)             | HOURS    |     0.04 |    0.0488 | +22.00% |
    | Cloud Servers        | (server type 3)             | HOURS    |     0.08 |    0.0976 | +22.00% |
    | Cloud Servers        | (server type 4)             | HOURS    |    0.384 |   0.46848 | +22.00% |

Instead of using Rackspace.com get some actual rack space!!

How to prevent yourself from enjoying any vacation ever again in few simple steps...

I was like you, dedicated or own servers in colo all the way.. I saved so much money! I had so much performance!

Few years in, my girlfriend got seriously angry with me because I was always checking my phone at least few times an hour (checking for downtime notifications, looking at the status monitoring page) and never agreed to going out of mobile network signal for more than few hours even though I told her I want to. I realized this is the reason, and started checking...

Turns out that compared to DigitalOcean prices, I saved a thousand dollars over a decade, definitely NOT enough to offset the stress, additional work, boring vacations and angry/sad partner... That's 2 times my daily rate. I'd rather work 2 extra days per decade. And compared to Hetzner Cloud prices I lost money.

You definitely don't need to check your notifications and status page several times per hour if you colo or rent dedicated servers.

That's just excessive, I colo and when it does go down I get a notification. (it's been 3 months since the last downtime and it only lasted for 3min)

You don't need to, but it's very easy to feel the need to do so. It's like social media - yes, you don't need to check it, but you still do.

> I colo and when it does go down I get a notification. (it's been 3 months since the last downtime and it only lasted for 3min)

That's how I started to be so stressed out. Few downtimes in a row during 6 months in the most inconvenient moments. Short, most of them resolved themselves, but I really hated when I had to choose between helping my ill grandmother and scrambling 100km home to my work computer - even if I actually didn't have to choose because 10 minutes later it resolved itself. It was still extremely uncomfortable. Eventually, every vibration of my phone considerably increased my heart rate. Maybe I checked it so often because if I saw the notification as it came, I avoided the moment of uncertainty whether it's something bad.

What was the cause of the downtime?

Random stuff like tmp/log folder full, misconfigured DB, the DC network went down once for few minutes...

Managed Postgres is the greatest invention of mankind. Just $30/month and the data is safe. What a relief.

Who do you use for this?

Digital Ocean

Still likely so much cheaper than AWS and GCloud.

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