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seats on April 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rackspace cloud beats Amazon EC2, by a lot

#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.

jfb on April 15, 2011 [–]

It's a fairly specific case, yeah. We've automated image construction, but it's still a PITA compared to just spinning up a new instance.

That said, there are always bigger fish to fry.

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