Web-server – Rackspace Cloud Sites: Compute Cycles exploding. Very expensive

I use two scripts to back up my VPS (hosted on Linode, but the same should work on Rackspace).

First, for mysql backup, I use the automysqlbackup script. It takes care of dumping your databases, compressing them, and maintaining several daily/weekly/monthly copies of the backup files. It can also email you the compressed .sql dumps as well.

For general filesystem backup, I use duplicity - this can use a number of different storage backends (ftp, scp, nfs, etc), but I choose to use the Amazon S3 backend. Duplicity will do either full or incremental backups depending on your need. It will also handle compression of your backup files as well as encryption if you so desire.

I've asked the same question myself of Rackspace support. They said:

... We are working on a new stats system that will be customer facing, however I do not have any firm ETA on that project.

I was also looking for hourly stats on bandwith et al, and they could not do that either. They do have daily numbers, but you have to raise a ticket and have them send you a spreadsheet with them.

EDIT: I've just logged in today and have seen (in the menu under YourAccount/Reports) new per-billing cycle graphs of CloudSites stats for bandwidth, CC's, disk-space etc. I'm really not sure at all of the numbers that are shown there, but it's a start. No exporting of the numbers from there either that I can see on the page.