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I was wondering why the text read a great deal like a VNR (video new release).

The analysis may be "independent", but the fine print at the bottom of the article indicates that it was paid for by Rackspace.



Fine print: "The Bitsource conducted an independent, third-party performance analysis of Rackspace CloudServers and Amazon EC2 on behalf of Rackspace Inc. The results were not influenced in any way by Rackspace Inc. as presented using the methods in this analysis."


The results were not influenced in any way by Rackspace Inc.

Yea. Right.

Rackspace just loves to pay for random pseudo-benchmarks. It's their way to give something back to the community. Or something.


This, compared with the way the "conclusions" are worded makes me put this in the "astroturf" category.


Strangely enough, I knew what the outcome would be before clicking the link.




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