Refreshingly Blue Says Use VPS.NET

Refreshingly Blue has a post where they describe their experience with Rackspace Sites and then later with VPS.NET. Their advice? “Stay away from Rackspace Cloudsites“:

Unfortunately, it turns out the Rackspace Cloudsites is unstable, unreliable, and slow. The support is still good, at least in terms of being available, but all they can say is “I’m sorry all your sites are down.” [...]

The stability of  Rackspace Cloudsites is terrible. Just this week the control panel was completely offline for about 3 hours. It went off line right as I was transferring a site and consequently I was unable to complete the transfer and had to start all over again the next day. [...]

Even worse than having the control panel offline, we run several e-commerce sites and 2 weeks before Christmas, our peak sales time of the year, our database was in “read only mode” ALL DAY due to a “degradation” in their service.

So they switched to VPS.NET. Their performance doubled, reliability increased, and it was half the price!