UPDATE: In July 2012, Rackspace Cloud launched support for the FreeBSD 9.0 operating system. Over the past two years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with Rackspace Cloud on multiple levels and from multiple directions.  I’ve been quite impressed with the technology, the team’s knowledge and willingness to help customers, the advancement of features, and [...]

We’re currently beginning a project that clones an environment currently setup at Amazon EC2 to Rackspace Cloud.  Both environments will operate mostly independently, but still need to be implemented in a similar fashion.  Without getting into too many details, I decided to make a quick blog post to compare the pros/cons of Amazon EC2 vs. [...]

We’ve been working on a project using Amazon Web Services for the past few years.  One of the main concerns I have is the inability to change a server from one security group to another once deployed.  I’m sure there are very good reasons for security groups being designed this way (the setup is most [...]