Re: [PLUG] Philly Colo

[Lee Marzke <lee@marzke.net>]

I'm looking for a way to run VM guest servers either locally to keep 
costs way down or in a colo
if I'm traveling for a long distance contract job.

In my case I run VMware ESX on the host and hosting shops currently want 
over
$100/guest/month to run each VMware instance. ( not per host ! )

I'm not looking to re-host these guests on another platform,  I simply 
want to
run VMware guests at a reasonable price if I have to travel,  and want some
'hands' available for emergencies.

Yes,  if I re-hosted the guests onto Ubuntu Cloud,  (Eucalyptus) I would 
also have to
move the Hypervisor from ESX to Xen/KVM.   Then I guess I could run 
instances
locally,  or push them up to Amazon,  but that is too much work at this 
time.

However as I recall,  hosting Ubuntu Cloud requires a lot of hardware, cloud
controller,  storage controller,  etc.


Lee


On 12/08/2010 07:06 PM, Douglas Muth wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Lee Marzke<lee@marzke.net>  wrote:
>    
> > The last colo discussion I've seen here was in 2008.
> >
> > I might have need to colo 1U to 3U of servers that are currently on
> > a 256Kb DSL uplink.  3 IP's
> >
> >      
> This might sound like a silly question, but with the popularity of
> VPSes (Linode, Slicehost, etc.) and other services like Amazon's EC2,
> why do people still colo?
>
> I say this as someone who has had to make use of "remote hands",
> failed hardware, flaky hardware, and such with co-loed equipment in
> the past, and that's never fun.  VPSes (and could computing, I guess)
> eliminate a lot of those hassles, and tend to be most cost efficient
> (you pay only for what you use).
>
> For the curious: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
>
> -- Doug
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