On: Apollo Global is buying Rackspace for $4.3B

[raverbashing]

Are you sure?

AWS was one of the most expensive ones, Rackspace was cheaper

[cmrdporcupine → raverbashing]

Back in 2009/2010 when I was looking into it AWS was half the price for a roughly equivalent instance.

[dagw → cmrdporcupine]

Did you run any benchmarks? Because I was looking at both during the same timeframe and Rackspace offered about 20-30% more 'operations'/dollar in our case.

[raverbashing → cmrdporcupine]

Looking at their site it seems now what they do is resell AWS/Azure/Google offers, which is weird (and dedicated servers, which was what they always did)