We're on Rackspace, and getting murdered by a couple of things:
1. Not being able to idle a system, or to restore from a system image (some persistent bug on their side w/r/t setting netmasks on external interfaces, of all things);
2. Not being able to buy disk independently of RAM.
We were moved from DFW to ORD and since then, we haven't seen the random weird outages that had me pulling out my hair. It hasn't been bad enough to make me want to move to EC2/some other hosting company, but I do look longingly at, say, spot instances, which would be a perfect tool for some of our problems. I'd love it if FreeBSD worked correctly, but I'd also like a pony, so what the hell.
#1 doesn't sound right to me. You should be able to create Cloud Files persisted backups and use them to launch new instances even after the original parent is gone.
Granted there could be some extenuating circumstance for your specific setup, but I think typically that scenario is supported out of the box.
1. Not being able to idle a system, or to restore from a system image (some persistent bug on their side w/r/t setting netmasks on external interfaces, of all things);
2. Not being able to buy disk independently of RAM.
We were moved from DFW to ORD and since then, we haven't seen the random weird outages that had me pulling out my hair. It hasn't been bad enough to make me want to move to EC2/some other hosting company, but I do look longingly at, say, spot instances, which would be a perfect tool for some of our problems. I'd love it if FreeBSD worked correctly, but I'd also like a pony, so what the hell.