[HN Gopher] Rackspace Spot - Rackspace - Pricing Page
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       Rackspace Spot - Rackspace - Pricing Page
        
       Author : m0nhawk
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2024-12-01 20:54 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (spot.rackspace.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (spot.rackspace.com)
        
       | SahAssar wrote:
       | Do I understand correctly that this will also change the price
       | while I am using it? So if I get a server now at $1/h and run it
       | overnight can the price jump so that the price will actually be
       | $2/h?
       | 
       | Or is the price at purchase locked in?
        
         | duskwuff wrote:
         | From what I'm reading in the documentation [1], it's broadly
         | similar to AWS spot pricing. You bid the maximum that you want
         | to pay, and get charged based on the current market price. If
         | the market price exceeds your bid, you get kicked off - so your
         | bid sets a ceiling on your costs.
         | 
         | [1]: https://spot.rackspace.com/docs/
        
       | chaps wrote:
       | When I worked at rackspace in 2016/2017 we couldn't even
       | internally get a critical Openstack server reprovisioned after it
       | was accidentally given 4GB of disk instead of 4GB of ram and
       | would break when it ran out of disk space. Nobody knew how to
       | reprovision it and the company's internal documentation wasn't
       | accurate so the server malingered around with its unnecessarily
       | large 64GB memory pool.
       | 
       | Just sayin'.
        
         | ethbr1 wrote:
         | There are worse interviewee questions than "Give me an overview
         | of how you'd get a server provisioned"
        
           | chaps wrote:
           | Flip it around -- I would consider it to be a large red flag
           | if the company behind Openstack was unable to use Openstack
           | because of brain drain and infrastructure rot.
        
         | junto wrote:
         | I think it's pretty sad what happened to Rackspace. Around 2010
         | they had a truly awesome service and support and an API that
         | was well designed. Openstack seemed like a great idea. AWS, GCP
         | and Azure killed it off and all their talent jumped ship or
         | were laid off. Pity really that it never came to anything. As
         | far as I'm now concerned it's dead and I would t risk anything
         | on it.
        
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