Public hosting
As we mentioned before, OpenStack was originally created with code contributions from NASA and Rackspace. NASA's interest in OpenStack sprang from their desire to create a private elastic compute cloud, whereas the primary goal for Rackspace was to create an open source platform that could replace their public shared hosting infrastructure. As of April 2015, the Rackspace Public Cloud offering had been ported to OpenStack and had passed the OpenStack Powered Platform certification.
The Rackspace implementation offers both Compute and Object Storage services, but some implementations may choose to offer only Compute or Object Storage and receive certifications for those services. DreamHost, another public OpenStack-based cloud ...
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