I'm using Mosso/Rackspace Cloud for a web design business. I wanted clients to be able to scale up without hitting bottlenecks or affecting other sites on the server.
It isn't perfect, but it has a few huge advantages. The biggest plus is that Rackspace handles all of the auto-scaling, so it is plug and play in that sense. You code it and load it, and if you need more PHP power or more database muscle, the system takes care of it for you. Great for blogs that may hit the front page of Digg (www.techspyer.com is a Wordpress install of mine that's on Mosso hosting and it works for that application).
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I'm using Mosso/Rackspace Cloud for a web design business. I wanted clients to be able to scale up without hitting bottlenecks or affecting other sites on the server.
It isn't perfect, but it has a few huge advantages. The biggest plus is that Rackspace handles all of the auto-scaling, so it is plug and play in that sense. You code it and load it, and if you need more PHP power or more database muscle, the system takes care of it for you. Great for blogs that may hit the front page of Digg (www.techspyer.com is a Wordpress install of mine that's on Mosso hosting and it works for that application).