Rackspace Spot
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy only for preemptible workloads . batch jobs, CI, testing, bursty ML . where interruptions and rebuilds are acceptable.
Comparison
Rackspace Spot vs Vultr
Vultr
Starting report…
Pick Rackspace Spot when
- Batch and Spark-style jobs with checkpointing
- CI/CD and test environments
- Bursty GPU/ML workloads
- K8s teams comfortable with preemption
When Rackspace Spot is not a fit
- Stateful production services needing uptime
- Anyone running multi-hour jobs without checkpointing
- Teams without time to babysit preemptions
- Workloads where a 2-minute load balancer blip hurts
Sources
review
- Honest review . Reddit r/rxt_spotreddit.comreview
- Spark RFC . Reddit r/apachesparkreddit.comreview
- How does spot pricing work . Redditreddit.comreview
- Rackspace Spot Pricingspot.rackspace.comofficial
- What is Rackspace Spot?spot.rackspace.comofficial
- Rackspace Spot launch press releaserackspace.comnews
- Rackspace Spot pricing discussion . Hacker Newsnews.ycombinator.comreview
- Rackspace Spot security pagespot.rackspace.comsecurity