[150526] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reliable Cloud host ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael DeMan)
Sun Feb 26 18:53:26 2012
From: Michael DeMan <nanog@deman.com>
In-Reply-To: <1fd3e972-a2e2-4ecc-b2d1-03fe47a828ff@zimbra.network1.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:52:27 -0800
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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We have found it effective at least for things like DNS and MX-backup to =
simply swap some VPS and/or physical colo with another ISP outside our =
geographic area. Both protocols are designed for that kind of =
redundancy. Definitely has limitations, but is also probably the =
cheapest solution.
- Mike
On Feb 26, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote:
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> Does anyone have any recommendation for a reliable cloud host?
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> We require 1 or 2 very small virtual hosts to host some remote =
services to serve as backup to our main datacenter. One of these =
services is a DNS server, so it is important that it is up all the time.
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> We have been using Rackspace Cloud Servers. We just realized that they =
have absolutely no redundancy or failover after experiencing a outage =
that lasted more than 6 hours yesterday. I am appalled that they would =
offer something called "cloud" without having any failover at all.
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> Basic requirements:
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> 1. Full redundancy with instant failover to other hypervisor hosts =
upon hardware 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 =
tiny 256MB RAM Server with <1GB/mo of data transfers)
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> thanks,
> -Randy
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