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Funny to post this here, but I'm actually planning on migrating from Rackspace to AWS purely because of price.

Rackspace's prices are insane. $1,314/mo for a cloud server with 30gb of ram, compared to $657/mo for 34gb on AWS.

Plus with AWS you can use reserved instances to get that cost down to $286/mo. Rackspace has no way to get the cost down.

That makes Rackspace cost over 4.5x more when comparing based on ram.

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That's a crazy amount to be paying a month for under $500 worth of RAM (2 x 16GB DDR3-1600 registered ECC for example). As the other reply mentioned, you should look into dedicated servers or colocation if you don't mind dealing with hardware yourself.

If you're that price sensitive/need big RAM and can use RIs you should really be looking at dedicated servers, too. (for which Rackspace is expensive as well, but actually provides a service level to justify it in many cases)

I disagree. The markup does not simply justify cheery service folks. I want knowledgeable. When they don't have support for Nginx, to me, that's not knowledgeable.

Rackspace prices are insanely high and I can't wait to move off of them.

I'm ok with a dedicated server provider being good at the physical and network without much focus on applications on the host. You can use a third party for host level sysadmin, but you don't have a third party choice for the infrastructure.

For the cost that Rackspace charges (and what they claim to provide for said cost) I want both.

Interesting, are you using any cloud management platform (e.g. RightScale)? They'll make it simpler to migrate.

If you're scenario is more complicated than a single server, you might find our tool useful to forecast your costs: https://my.shopforcloud.com/?guest=true (this link will create a guest account for you so you can play with it quickly)

disclaimer: I'm co-founder of ShopForCloud.com

If latency to europe is acceptable for you then you might want to look into Hetzner.

$657/mo will rent you eight 32G/i7 servers there.

If europe is not acceptable then you should still look into american colos (e.g. LeaseWeb recently opened a US DC) which are not as cheap as Hetzner but will still give you 3-4 servers for the money.

Doesn't Germany have crazy data retention laws and privacy regulations? I'd be more concerned about having to follow two sets of laws than trans-atlantic latency.

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