> We want to try out Cassandra in the cloud. Any recommendations? Comments? > Should we use Amazon? Rackspace? Something else?
I'm using it on Amazon with mostly success. I'd recommend increasing Phi from 8 to 10, use the 4-core/15gb instances to start, and if you plan to be really heavy on reads to use software RAID of striped EBS volumes instead of just the straight-up EBS volumes.
