Rackspace

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Here is why RackSpace is fun: Imagine you want to book a rental car in the USA via the internet. Your browser recognizes you are from Germany and Hertz charges you 10% more. What do you do? Go to http://manage.rackspacecloud.com and provision your own computer in the cloud. There you start a firefox and book your car from a US location. Here is how:

  • provision a Ubuntu 10.10 server
easy click-through on http://manage.rackspacecloud.com
  • apt-get install vncserver
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