[smacktoward]

Aaargh.

I love Rackspace. I was looking forward to being a happy Rackspace customer until I was old and gray. And all the things I love about them would be the first things to go after an acquisition.

Aaaaaaaaaargh.

[dredmorbius]

Which speaks to another risk of cloud computing: business continuity of your cloud provider.

[toomuchtodo]

* Store your application/source code/etc in multiple object stores (S3/Rackspace Cloud files)

* Abstract away from specific computing/storage APIs

* Test to ensure you can always deploy to a different provider

Twilio does this well, as they run in AWS and Rackspace Cloud, based on availability and cost.

[olegp]

Yeah, I hope Geekdom isn't affected. Best startup co-working space in SF IMO.

[avelis]

As a Geekdom member. I agree.

[yuhong]

I wonder what would be a good acquirer.

[dvanduzer]

Ten cents on the dollar would be about $470 million cash. Define "good"

edit: $430 million between when the story broke and now.

[rhizome]

GoDaddy probably has the cash.

[FireBeyond]

Please, no. Just, no.

We have 80+ servers with Rackspace. Would go to AWS before enduring a GoDaddy-owned Rackspace, on general principles.

[yuhong]

And I think has improved since the Bob Parsons days.

[bbunix]

Verio might be a good match... NTT could afford it... and make them a player.

[tbyehl]

Verio was a player. The largest by some measures. Then they exercised an option to force NTT to buy them out when the tech stock market tanked and have barely been heard from since.

* I was in the first wave of NTT/Verio lay-offs.