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When I worked at rackspace in 2016/2017 we couldn't even internally get a critical Openstack server reprovisioned after it was accidentally given 4GB of disk instead of 4GB of ram and would break when it ran out of disk space. Nobody knew how to reprovision it and the company's internal documentation wasn't accurate so the server malingered around with its unnecessarily large 64GB memory pool.

Just sayin'.

There are worse interviewee questions than "Give me an overview of how you'd get a server provisioned"

Flip it around -- I would consider it to be a large red flag if the company behind Openstack was unable to use Openstack because of brain drain and infrastructure rot.

I think it’s pretty sad what happened to Rackspace. Around 2010 they had a truly awesome service and support and an API that was well designed. Openstack seemed like a great idea. AWS, GCP and Azure killed it off and all their talent jumped ship or were laid off. Pity really that it never came to anything. As far as I’m now concerned it’s dead and I would t risk anything on it.

I worked onsite at 'the castle' in San Antonio as an Intel employee as part of the OSIC (OpenStack Innovation Center) collaboration between Intel and Rackspace. There was a tremendous amount of OpenStack talent there at the time. I hated working there because of the noise and distractions, but it was awesome to have some of the OpenStack talent there to speak with in person.

Wow, 2010 was a full two years after they refused to hire me. And I started a Freenet and an ISP and was a CCTLD administrator and a telco contact and somewhat Cisco guru, and managed BGP routes with experience on several unixii. My wife and I had been early customers (4 digit cust number) with a dedicated server. I showed up in San Antone just asking for an interview, they punted me to the website and never called back.

(In retrospect) THANK YOU, RACKSPACE for not trapping me with a great salary in Texas and instead forcing me to Plan B which was get any job I could get in small town OK and be able to finish raising my son and daughter.

Anyone know why the instances lose 256MB RAM for every 4GB allocated? 3.75 (4), 7.5 (8), 15 (16), etc?

Hypervisor overhead.

Do I understand correctly that this will also change the price while I am using it? So if I get a server now at $1/h and run it overnight can the price jump so that the price will actually be $2/h?

Or is the price at purchase locked in?

From what I'm reading in the documentation [1], it's broadly similar to AWS spot pricing. You bid the maximum that you want to pay, and get charged based on the current market price. If the market price exceeds your bid, you get kicked off - so your bid sets a ceiling on your costs.

[1]: https://spot.rackspace.com/docs/

Rackspace? Wooowww. Tonight I’m going to party like it’s 1999.

theplanet.com anyone?

Who is using Rackspace Cloud today and why?

I am not talking of managed services, but infrastructure services.

This feels like a Japanese soldier in the jungle still shooting left over ammo after the war has been over for more than 10 years.

I thought Rackspace was dead, but then I looked it up.

It is a public company traded as Nasdaq: RXT, it still has $3B revenue per year but market cap at $600M. For comparison DigitalOcean only has $600M revenue but at $3.5B market cap.

I remember they purchased Slicehost, that was the major competitor against Linode before DO was a thing. And everything since then went down hill. I was hoping Rackspace would provide the infrastructure and BareMetal while Slicehost would be the VPS ( I think Cloud meant something different back then but I may be wrong ).

Time to buyout Rackspace and Make Slicehost Great Again /s

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