I've heard a lot of press about cloud computing lately, it sounds like a cool idea but to be honest I'm not overly convinced it's the magic silver bullet a lot of the supporters are saying it is.
As for Mosso, yes, it's backed by Rackspace, they own it. They also don't appear to put down much of a defined 'high performance' SLA:
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The Mosso Service Level Promise
Our no-loophole, no-legalese SLA
Mosso believes that your websites, email and databases should always be protected against unscheduled outages. Our commitment to you is that every effort will be made to keep your sites online.
This isn't an empty promise:
1. The Hosting Cloud, powered by enterprise technology, is built to be highly robust.
2. We've hired great people.
Most importantly, we'll credit your next invoice with the equivalent of 1 day's hosting fee for each 60 minutes of unscheduled downtime (up to 100% of your Recurring Fee). It doesn't matter why—any time your websites, email or databases are offline or not functioning as a result of a failure in our systems, data center, or network is considered downtime, and we begin counting from the minute you open an incident report with our support team.
That's it—we've designed our SLA to be ultra-simple. Please note that the Mosso SLA does not cover coding or configuration errors on your part, and like all hosts, we may schedule occasional maintenance windows that will affect the availability of some services. We'll post notification of scheduled maintenance before it happens, and since we operate clusters of servers, maintenance that causes downtime should be rare.
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To me that ain't ACTUALLY an SLA, more of what'll be paid to you if you have an outage. 1 day of hosting fees for 60 minutes downtimes in most terms doesn't seem that great. I know most hosts if a server was dead for 1 day they'd offer a full months credit. Mosso would have refunded 24 days worth.
Stu
