I'm looking for a good cloud hosting company with utility style costs (paying for how much bandwidth, hard disk, cpu is used.
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Matthew, I work for OpenStack and am happy to provide you some guidance on service providers implementing it. First, it's important to note that there are two OpenStack projects: Compute and Object Storage. It sounds like you are looking for Compute, but FWIW on the Object Storage side Rackspace is currently running this code as "Rackspace Cloud Files". We expect other service providers to implement Object Storage in the coming months. Regarding Compute, this is actually not yet implemented at Rackspace (or anywhere else), as the code is still being written. We are going through the process of merging the best of NASA's Nebula cloud code with Rackspace Cloud Servers, and the first release of that code is scheduled for October 21st. It will be some number of months after that before you will see service providers put it into production, including Rackspace. I hope this answers your question. Fee free to follow me on twitter @sparkycollier as well as the project @openstack and also keep up with the latest on the blog openstack.org/blog Thanks for your interest in our project! Mark Collier Chief Community Stacker @sparkycollier | |||||
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As OpenStack was primarily created by Rackspace, I would think that they would be the one. There's a long list of other companies arguably "involved" with OpenStack but in terms of a real live cloud provider offering OpenStack based services, AFAIK it's just Rackspace. | |||||
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There are many more OnApp providers that do this already. Lots of hosting companies are using it, not just one, take your pick. I'm using an OnApp cloud right now. I'm deploying CentOS VPS. No complaints yet. Very fast. By the way, I have no affiliation with OnApp. I wouldn't know how to compare OpenStack to OnApp, I haven't used OpenStack. I talked to one of the developers yesterday and he couldn't explain to me why OpenStack is better than OnApp, besides the fact it's open source. Well, now that I know Rackspace is the driving force behind OpenStack, how "open source" is it really? I guess we'll find out? Also there's Solusvm which is the most popular cloud system. They don't really sell it as a cloud system, they call it a "virtual server manager" very low-budget looking and awkward but they are enormously successful, I'm guessing much larger than Rackspace if you combined all the hosts using Solusvm. Every thread you will find about Solusvm, every time the consensus is "nothing comes close" in terms of features and usefulness. To get going with Solusvm, all you need is one server and a few spare $ for a license so the barrier to entry is low. You may argue there's no comparison--but Solusvm and its competitors are adding more "master-to-slave" features, where a slave can disconnect and become a master, where VMs can move from machine to machine and so forth, seems there's a lot of opportunity for innovation and market demand there. That said, addressing Matthew's question, I'm more impressed with OnApp, it's in a different league, partly because of the slick "utility style cost" interface (jQuery?) sliders. Click and drag, now you have twice the speed, twice the ram, etc. Nobody telling me how to spend my money, how to allocate resources, with all the benefits of Xen resource contention, respectful bursting, whatever the details--people seem to prefer Xen. I'm very happy with it too. As a consumer of web hosting, I don't get the appeal of Rackspace or the OpenStack technology yet. Although I must admit I'm curious what OpenStack is about. How is it better than OnApp or any other cloud system? Is this really just clever marketing disguised as an open source project? I personally don't think of Rackspace as a technology company. Clearly they understand marketing and finance--but at the core of the company, why does Rackspace exist? What's the purpose? I get the feeling it's just about money. | ||||
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