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6 months/$300 credit - similar to the AWS 1 year free usage http://aws.amazon.com/free/. Rackspace needs to upgrade their underlying years old AMD 4170/2374 hardware for cloud servers. This is a limitation for vertical scaling, and doesn't compare well to EC2/GCE/HP.

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Are you talking about the cloud server (nova) hosts, or the dedicated gear?

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thanks - let me talk to the teams. I can't talk about migrations / upgrades publicly, but I know the teams have been working on this and thinking hard on it.

That would be good - I wrote a blog post on the topic. Rackspace cloud servers CPU performance caps out low and $/CPU value isn't good on large instance types: http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2013/06/value-of-the-cloud-cpu-...

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