Re: [Nolug] A week with MOSSO

From: Petri Laihonen <pietu_at_weblizards.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:33:06 -0500
Message-ID: <49F77612.5020503@weblizards.net>

rackspace bought both Mosso and Slicehost almost at the same time....

Petri

Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> Dennis,
>
> Are you sure this is really slicehost? Didn't Rackspace have a Mosso
> offering like this prior to slicehost?
>
> Just curious...
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Dennis J Harrison Jr
> <dennisharrison@gmail.com <mailto:dennisharrison@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Just FYI:
>
> Mosso is the offering from rackspace based on their purchase of
> slicehost last year. It is cheaper then slicehost and the testmaker
> tests we have running for freeswitch, apache and python are showing
> that we are about 22% faster on the 15.5gb vm from mosso as opposed to
> the 15.5gb slice we have at slicehost.
>
> I am really surprised by this, because rdns for everything at mosso is
> slicehost. And I know it's a one-off... Although the dns tool at
> mosso sucks in comparison to everything else i've seen :)
>
> Anyhow, I know there are a few devs on the list. Who knows how long
> performance will be acceptable before they overcrowd the servers.
> They seem to be using an ultra patched xen 3.2 as the hypervisors, so
> hopefully the cpu pri gets tuned well enough per domU.
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