Just a note: The reason for the verification process that customers must go through in order to receive an account is in place to prevent spammers, misuse and AUP violations.
The current signup process for developers remains suboptimal, and a number of teams are working on this, but I thought I would quickly followup. If you still want to try out Rackspace's Cloud, I can connect you with the people needed to help debug why the verification service failed - if it failed for you, it can fail for others in the same way, and is therefore a bug.
Thanks, I don't need a rackspace account ATM, but if want it in the future, I hope the the onbroading process is eliminated completely.
I understand prevent spammers or misuse is hard, but other providers I have used like Slicehost (acquired by RS), Linode, AWS, DigitalOcean...and more) don't have any issue preventing people from signing up. (AWS even give people 1yr free tier usage)
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Just a note: The reason for the verification process that customers must go through in order to receive an account is in place to prevent spammers, misuse and AUP violations.
The current signup process for developers remains suboptimal, and a number of teams are working on this, but I thought I would quickly followup. If you still want to try out Rackspace's Cloud, I can connect you with the people needed to help debug why the verification service failed - if it failed for you, it can fail for others in the same way, and is therefore a bug.
Thanks, I don't need a rackspace account ATM, but if want it in the future, I hope the the onbroading process is eliminated completely.
I understand prevent spammers or misuse is hard, but other providers I have used like Slicehost (acquired by RS), Linode, AWS, DigitalOcean...and more) don't have any issue preventing people from signing up. (AWS even give people 1yr free tier usage)