Re: [Nolug] A week with MOSSO

I think I am thinking of another acquisition...

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Petri Laihonen <pietu@weblizards.net>wrote:

> 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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