On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Rick Schummer wrote:
>>> I don't think that they offer Windows servers in the cloud yet; I
> know that they've been negotiating with Microsoft for some time to
> try to
> come up with a licensing agreement that will make that possible.<<
>
> Good thing Ed is not in sales <g>, but his advice is good to chat
> with a
> rep.
>
> I am working with a Windows 2003 server in the Rackspace cloud with
> SQL
> Server Express loaded. My client is paying an arm and a leg for it
> though,
> but for my client it is worth the expense for their business. It is
> a real
> nice setup so far.
Right now the Rackspace Cloud offers the following Cloud Servers:
CentOS (2 versions)
Gentoo
Debian
Fedora (2 versions)
Ubuntu (3 versions)
Arch
RedHat Enterprise
They do not offer Win2K3 cloud servers. You might be thinking of
Rackspace Cloud *Sites*, which do offer Windows options. However,
these are not servers: you cannot shell into them, add/remove
software, change configurations, access the file system, etc. With a
Cloud Server, you have a virtual machine that you interact with
identically to any other box. With my current situation of being 1700
miles away from the leafe.com box in my house, I work with both that
physical box and my cloud sites exactly the same way; the experience
is the same.
-- Ed Leafe
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