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As I remember rackspace is a cloud in the same sense that Linode is a cloud, but not in the same sense that Amazon is a cloud, ie. they've taken an existing vps
by asharp 14y ago
As I remember rackspace is a cloud in the same sense that Linode is a cloud, but not in the same sense that Amazon is a cloud, ie. they've taken an existing vps product (Slicehost) and resold it under the 'cloud' brand rather then developing something new from the ground up as a cloud.
- bradgignac 14y agoPer the blog post, Cloud Servers is no longer based upon an existing VPS product. Instead, it is based upon the OpenStack project that Rackspace started with NASA in 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStack