[twalla]

Their bare metal cloud offering (SoftLayer acquisition) was actually pretty good whenever I used it about 4 years ago. Wasn’t the most intuitive API or UI but you could get a bare metal server anywhere in the world in a few minutes.

[rad_gruchalski]

When the wind blows in the right direction. Sometimes, your server would get stuck in provisioning for hours and only get „un-stuck” after creating a support ticket. Which, I kid you not, at one of the previous jobs, wd had automated in our provisioning popeline. Good times.

But when it worked, it worked. API was voodoo.

[bashinator]

I just discovered this today:

    aws support create-case \
        --subject "not working" \
        --communication-body file://description.txt

[Kinrany]

Fixing provisioning based on support tickets might have been automated on their side too :)