How can Rackspace beat DigitalOcean's Pricepoint? [on hold]

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Published on 2013-11-07T15:00:10Z Indexed on 2013/11/07 15:57 UTC
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I have recently discovered Digital Ocean and I have found it to be a relatively nice experience for small staging servers, and the thought occurred to me, why am I paying $267~ for a server on Rackspace (40GB RAM, 160 GB Drive, 2 vCPUs, 400 Mb/s) when Digital Ocean offers a server for $40 (40 GB RAM, 60GB Drive [storage is not a concern of mine], 2 vCPUs, ?Mb/s)?

Does Rackspace offer some kind of obvious advantages in Transfer speed/bandwidth?

My applications are small startups that for the immediate future will only have about 200-300 concurrent users at once.

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