[150571] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reliable Cloud host ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Mon Feb 27 18:47:15 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAK__KzuH0+K8z4n5kyDU+A-vy5ksSY-EY2=T11Nc75tjtFmOcQ@mail.gmail.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:45:58 -0500
To: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:19 PM, George Herbert
<george.herbert@gmail.com> wrote:
> Failing to have central shared storage (iSCSI, NAS, SAN, whatever you
> prefer) fails the smell test on a local enterprise-grade
> virtualization cluster, much less a shared cloud service.
Hi George,
Why would you imagine that a $30/month virtual private server is built
on an enterprise-grade virtualization cluster? You know what it costs
to builds fibre channel SANs and blade servers and DR. In what
universe does $30/mo per customer recover that cost during the useful
life of the equipment?
A VPS is 2012's version of 2002's web server + CGI and a unix shell.
Quite useful but don't expect magic from it.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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