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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:46:23 +0000

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By: Guy Rosen

Guy Rosen — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:55:56 +0000

@Scott – Joyent have a slightly different model which is not as pay-per-use and elastic as the others. (A while ago there was even some controversy on whether they should be called cloud or not – but let’s leave that :-). One does not spin instances up and down rapidly on Joyent but rather purchases an “accelerator” on a monthly basis.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:29:30 +0000

How about Joyent?

By: Guy Rosen

Guy Rosen — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:24:28 +0000

Thanks for highlighting that Alex and, err, Anonymous. Rackspace and Slicehost are indeed intertwined, and some of the numbers can be attributed to Slicehost.
One could imagine that Slicehost is a monthly-based service and so overall there would be less spinning up and down of instances as you’d expect to see on the pay-per-hour cloud.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:05:55 +0000

Alex is correct… the SliceHost IDs are inter-mingled with the Rackspace Cloud Server IDs so the data is a bit skewed.

By: Alex Polvi

Alex Polvi — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:45:08 +0000

Does this take into consideration that the Slicehost IDs are intermingled with Rackspace IDs? I.e. boot a new node on Slicehost gives you ID 100, then the next Rackspace node is ID 101. If my understanding is correct, that is how it works.

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