Re: [Nolug] A week with MOSSO

I actually wasn't aware that rackspace bought mosso as well. I
thought it was an internal development by a division of rackspace.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Jonathan Roberts <gremln007@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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