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		tlrobinson on April 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rackspace cloud beats Amazon EC2, by a lot You can't really compare S3 to a VPS. S3 offers redundancy and scalability that nothing running on a single VPS could do.

krakensden on April 15, 2011 [–]

Yeah, but how many people take full advantage of that? How many would be better served by a beefy Linode instance running lightthpd?

sghael on April 15, 2011 | [–]

Redundancy is insurance. By the nature of being there it's taken advantage of

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