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]]> By: giles http://www.gilesthomas.com/?p=480&cpage=1#comment-14788 giles Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:01:09 +0000 http://www.gilesthomas.com/?p=480#comment-14788 Hi Richard - you may well be right there. AWS makes it really easy to get going, but perhaps Rackspace is a better (or at least equally-good) option for larger businesses, especially once they have a feel for how much power they need. The fun thing with Dirigible was that I was able to actually put the hosting-provider-sniffing code in the spreadsheet as well as the raw data -- and, of course, learnt a lot about our usability while so doing... :-S Hi Richard – you may well be right there. AWS makes it really easy to get going, but perhaps Rackspace is a better (or at least equally-good) option for larger businesses, especially once they have a feel for how much power they need.

The fun thing with Dirigible was that I was able to actually put the hosting-provider-sniffing code in the spreadsheet as well as the raw data — and, of course, learnt a lot about our usability while so doing… :-S

]]> By: richard http://www.gilesthomas.com/?p=480&cpage=1#comment-14780 richard Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:17:42 +0000 http://www.gilesthomas.com/?p=480#comment-14780 Interesting numbers and great to see Dirigible in use as a means of publishing data. Of course the bulk of RackSpace revenues are from anyone but startups whereas AWS' offering has a good deal of attraction to startups and startup-a-likes so I wouldn't write off RackSpace anytime soon. Not meaning to criticise AWS - I use it and love it but if I was driving a start up as I got bigger I'd have to be thinking to move off AWS unless I had some crazy cyclic demand which fitted the 'turn-it-on-turn-it-off' AWS offers unusually well. Interesting numbers and great to see Dirigible in use as a means of publishing data.

Of course the bulk of RackSpace revenues are from anyone but startups whereas AWS’ offering has a good deal of attraction to startups and startup-a-likes so I wouldn’t write off RackSpace anytime soon.

Not meaning to criticise AWS – I use it and love it but if I was driving a start up as I got bigger I’d have to be thinking to move off AWS unless I had some crazy cyclic demand which fitted the ‘turn-it-on-turn-it-off’ AWS offers unusually well.

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