Rackspace - Big news in cloud hosing

Submitted by timmillwood on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 08:51
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Yesterday Rackspace announce their purchase of Slicehost and Jungle Disk.

Rackspace hosted what they called a Cloud event to talk about their current Cloud hosting solution Mosso. Mosso allows users to setup site, this site can then then be easily scaled to meet demands. There are now a few similar systems, Media Temple Grid Service (gs), GoGrid, Amazon Ec2 etc each of these vary in price and features.

At their Cloud event Rackspace discussed how Mosso will be chaning. Mosso now features three products, Cloud sites, which is the old Mosso, Cloud files, which is the old Jungle Disk and Cloud servers which is the old Slicehost.

Slicehost has been very popular with developers offering reasonably cheap and scalable virtual servers. Now they have been bought out by Rackspace I think things can only get better for them. Rackspace where really missing this area in their product line up so it is good news all round.

For more information check out:
http://www.rackspace.com/blog/
http://www.mosso.com/
http://www.slicehost.com/
http://jungledisk.com/