[150521] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reliable Cloud host ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lyon)
Sun Feb 26 18:05:16 2012
From: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1fd3e972-a2e2-4ecc-b2d1-03fe47a828ff@zimbra.network1.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:04:13 -1000
To: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Godaddy? Servint.com? Amazon EC2?
-mike
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 26, 2012, at 12:57, Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net> wrote:
>
>
> Does anyone have any recommendation for a reliable cloud host?
>
> We require 1 or 2 very small virtual hosts to host some remote services t=
o serve as backup to our main datacenter. One of these services is a DNS se=
rver, so it is important that it is up all the time.
>
> We have been using Rackspace Cloud Servers. We just realized that they ha=
ve absolutely no redundancy or failover after experiencing a outage that la=
sted more than 6 hours yesterday. I am appalled that they would offer somet=
hing called "cloud" without having any failover at all.
>
> Basic requirements:
>
> 1. Full redundancy with instant failover to other hypervisor hosts upon h=
ardware failure (I thought this was a given!)
> 2. Actual support (with a phone number I can call)
> 3. reasonable pricing (No, $800/month is not reasonable when I need a tin=
y 256MB RAM Server with <1GB/mo of data transfers)
>
> thanks,
> -Randy
>
