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by ellie42 5249 days ago
What about Rackspace Cloud Files? http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/files/...
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justincormack 5249 days ago
What about it? It was more expensive, and now looks worse. If you host at rackspace though the network costs will make it cheaper.
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NARKOZ 5249 days ago
See comparison[1]. It's still cheaper than Amazon. They don't charge for requests and incoming bandwidth.

1: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/files/...

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RKearney 5249 days ago
Amazon also does not charge for inbound bandwidth. I'm not sure what you're getting at. They also had to do the comparison with the additional support package from Amazon to inflate the price to make their pricing model look more appealing.
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jdelsman 5249 days ago
(Bandwidth prices not withstanding.)

10,000,000,000 GET requests on Amazon = $1,000.00 (0.01/10000 reqs) 10,000,000,000 GET requests on Rackspace = $0.00 (FREE)

1,000 GB on Amazon = $125.00 (0.125/gb) 1,000 GB on Rackspace = $150.00 (0.15/gb)

Total Amazon: $1,250.00 Total Rackspace: $150.00

That's what he's getting at.

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match 5249 days ago
Damn, that's a lot of GETs if you're just doing backup. What's up with that?
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