I’ll admit that I had a hard time switching from Linode to the Rackspace Cloud. Both because moving datacenters (even in a cloud world) is still a big pain and I really did like linode. Linode still has a few features that I really miss, like graphs of CPU usage and disk IO, and a control panel that’s fairly fast and responsive.

However, while Rackspace’s control panel might fall short there overall service has been amazing. 24/7 live technical support, really clean implementation of daily and weekly backups, and automated server upgrading (like slicehost, I can migrate from a 2 GIG to 4 GIG instance with a few clicks, and minimal downtime).

Enough about rackspace. Today Rackspace launched their Tools.rackspace.com directory of products. It’s quite the line up. They have deal from CloudKick, MixPanel, and a few other companies that we respect and think are awesome. So if your looking for solutions that are using Rackspace as their backbone, and are pretty damn awesome you should check out that directory.

I can tell you this much, we are based in the cloud, and have found rackspaces services to be pretty unbeatable. So if you have a problem with one of these services, it’s definitely not the hosting infrastructure’s fault ;-).