[clue-talk] Enterprise level hosting provider

[Brian Gibson]

Amazon EC2 and Rackspace come immediately to mind, and by that token, are 
probably already on your short list.  The only experience I have with Rackspace 
is for vanilla hosting space and not virtualization.  There service is top notch 
and fast.  Their customer service is very responsive, but like any other 
provider, by the time you're calling them, you often have to escalate the 
problem to a senior tech because you know more than the junior ones fielding the 
front lines.  We ran into a technical issue with how they configure their load 
balancers where the .NET load balancers are prioritized before the Linux ones 
even if you disable .NET on your account.  They were able to help diagnose and 
resolve the issue in a relatively timely manner given that it wasn't a mission 
critical problem.


- Brian


----- Original Message ----
From: Ski Dawg <skidawg at skidawg.org>
To: clue-talk at cluedenver.org
Sent: Tue, September 14, 2010 2:26:31 PM
Subject: [clue-talk] Enterprise level hosting provider

Hello everyone,

At work, we are looking into other enterprise level hosting options
for our web applications, and I was wondering if anyone had any that
they would recommend.

Our applications run in a LAMP environment, currently running on
CentOS. At this time, we are not interested in hosting and or
maintaining our own hardware, but rather have a provider that will
take care of that side of the equation. We can maintain the OS and
software on the servers themselves, once they are in place.

We would like a setup where we can run a few virtual machines on the
physical hardware, to better utilize the resources. Our current host,
provides this capability by running VMWare ESX on the hardware, then
creating multiple virtual machines on that physical system. A VMWare
solution would work, but we would be open to other options that
provide a similar end result.

Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.
-- 
Doug

Registered Linux User #285548 (http://counter.li.org)
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