[jdoss]

Honest question. How much would you pay to have something that manages the updates and setup for you and give you the sysadmin help when you need it?

[worklogin]

That's what Rackspace does. I haven't used them in a while, but it looks like it's ALL they do now. (moved to DO, since it was half the cost and I /do/ have enough sysadmin chops to keep two linux servers patched).

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/compare-service-levels

[dougbarrett]

Rackspace doesn't actively maintain the servers by applying updates, etc. You can go to them if 3rd party software breaks on your servers and they will help you out, but I know for a fact that they don't actively update the servers, and that's a good thing considering you'd want to probably roll that into doing a release where you take that server out of rotation.

[jdoss]

Yea but what if it was vendor agnostic? Rackspace has always been super expensive compared to the rest.

[duggan]

Judging by the general implosion of the PaaS industry, not enough to make it worthwhile.

It's a much more complex problem than most people think.

[chourobin]

what makes you say the PaaS industry is imploding?