It’s been over a month since I opened my account with Mosso, Rackspace’s cloud hosting division. Overall, I’ve been very happy with my decision – but there are a few things you may want to be aware of if you’re considering switching.
I am in the process of migrating all 200 domain names (approximately 100 websites) on my server over to Mosso – which is why you would have gotten a 404 if you happened on the site for a short time last night. (.htaccess did not transfer correctly, so mod_rewrites were borked.) Sorry for any inconvenience – was my fault, not Mosso’s.
Its a call you never, ever want to get. “My server is down!” or “Our website has been hacked!” As a developer, there are few things that make you look worse than getting a call from your client letting you know that their site is down, or worse yet, hacked. Even if you’re not directly involved with hosting their website, they look to you to be on top of the game.
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