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Beginning next week Mosso (mosso.com) will be rebranding to ‘The Rackspace Cloud’ and retiring the ‘Mosso’ name. We (Monochrome) have now started using MossoRackspace Cloud Servers for a few clients now and are really finding them very good so if you’re in the market for scalable, on demand hosting then check them out!
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Interesting. We use them for RoR and PHP hosting and find their support to be…lacking. As in: nearly a week of 100% downtime on one of our RoR sites with no useful help from support. Hope you have better luck.
sounds very odd – I’ve had nothing but good results when I’ve used their support. What exactly is the problem you’re experiencing? We’ve just deployed a RoR app to 2 servers.
John.
Please reach out to us. What seems to be the problem?
I am at emil.sayegh@rackpsace.com.
Emil Sayegh
General Manager
Rackspace Cloud
I was looking ‘Mosso’ about a month ago. I really like how your data will persist on the VM even when the VM is powered off.
Do you have any info for deploying one of the open cfml engines to the “Rackspace Cloud”?
Hi Peter,
That’s the beauty of Rackspace Servers. People have worked around the ‘inconvenience’ of none persistent data with Amazon EC2 employing S3 etc for boot images etc but we were after a scalable solution which was more what we’re used to in the traditional data centre. In fact, we still have our own cage in a datacentre in London but we’re pushing more stuff up to the cloud now….why manage physical servers when someone else can?
In terms of the open cfml engines I think of the bunch Railo is the one that I like the most. Its *really* fast and if you’re only after core CF functionality and not some of the more specific stuff like pdf gen, reports etc it suits most people. Not to mention some features not even existing in ColdFusion, ie the cluster scope etc to share data across scopes as well as settings around a cluster, couple this with the zero license cost of additional CF servers with Railo then you’ve got a pretty sweet platform.
I’ve written a few blogs posts on Mosso now, http://john.beynon.org.uk/2009/04/09/first-looks-mosso-cloudservers/ and http://john.beynon.org.uk/2009/04/17/mosso-cloudservers-vs-slicehost/ which might be of interest.
Hey Guys!
I remember some of the Rackspace people coming in and speaking about their new Mosso project at Trinity University. If I remember correctly rackspace was started by TU grads no? I’m happy to hear about the re-branding, that is if it is telling of Mosso’s success and thus expansion under the Rackspace branding.
Best wishes!
I was excited about this service until I tried it. Slow and unreliable
Brett – is this site slow and unreliable? This has been running on CloudServers for almost 2 months now.
Interested to find out your perception
Our websites / web-apps do seem to load up a bit slower than the ones hosted on our dedicated RackSpace servers.
Add to it, our support site which was on Rackspace cloud is down for the past 3 days. And nobody knows what triggered this! There is apparently a conflict between Zend and PHP when everyone claims nobody did any changes to the configuration of either of them!