We have migrated all file storage and CDN delivery from Rackspace to Amazon S3. Amazon is the leader in file storage and it has a great Content Delivery Network to speed up load times internationally.

Your website is already accessing everything at the new location (we've done everything to update links embeded in pages as well). But if you have any third party sites linking to your files, or you have shared links directly, then those third party links must be updated ASAP.

All files have been confirmed as transferred and the old files will be deleted off Rackspace July 31, 2019. If you need to update any third party links, please make those changes immediately so that the links do not fail.

On Amazon we can track bandwidth much better, and we will be able to offer better pricing and pass through costs for actual bandwidth used (instead of prepurchased chunks, once we build that billing system). Overall it's a great move.

Background to the Migration

Over the past few years, Rackspace has stopped innovating their own products (becoming more of a consulting firm for other products like Amazon). Their product support has degraded, and they have not provided the tools we need to audit the CDN bandwidth. In March our bandwidth bill from them mysteriously started doubling month after month until it reached 1000% normal costs (compared to 10 years of usage). The log files did not reflect the amount of usage we were being billed, and they refused to provide any explanation for this discrepancy or refunds. So we decided it was time to invest in the infrastructure tranistion away from Rackspace (a process that has been happening for a couple years now with all the other servers we once had with them). The only service remaining with Rackspace now is the script to fetch MLS records (for Realtors) and a few managed DNS records, both of which we'll be migrating in the very near future.