Rackspace announces it has laid off 200 workers
Oh man.  I've had a VPS with them since before they acquired SliceHost, and have been paying a (way overpriced) $20/mo for a SINGLE 512mb server just because the IP reputation is super squeaky clean, as it's my mail server.<p>They just announced a $5 hike in price this month for "fanatical" support, I haven't opened a support request with them in eons:<p>> <i>In July 2014, Rackspace introduced a minimum support fee of $50 for all new accounts to offset the rising cost of providing Fanatical Support. Legacy accounts like yours were unaffected by this change, keeping your previous rate without a support fee for the past four years. Effective February 2019, you will see the addition of a $5 support fee on your invoice.</i><p>I've been grooming a elastic IP @ AWS for the last year, and rackspace is getting dropped this week.