Hi Chris,

After a South Island DC, but it does have to stay within NZ for legal
reasons.

When I said high end, I meant something more than the standard 1GB
offerings: Need 1TB storage, 32GB mem, decent spec quad (v)CPU and
30GB/day of domestic traffic ( that sounds really high to me, given the
application but that's what the net interface tells me ) to add a node
to an existing cluster that is both geographically anc corporately (?)
separate from the existing ones. We're after 2 internet facing, one
backup and a spare node in the office ( fibre ) as the ultimate
solution, but 3 of these nodes are currently in the same DC run by the
same company.

I also look after Amazon and (recommend where geographically valid)
linode, and have had the misfortune to have to use Rackspace in the
past... fanatical support my a*se. I also find Digital Pacific to be a
decent company to use for dedicated stuff as well, and ServerMule to be
an alternative cost-effective local provider.

Just a happy user, no kickbacks here (: It's a difficult market to keep
ahead of, and these are my current favourites.

We should set up a freelance SysAdmin group (:


Steve


On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 17:01 +1300, Chris Hellyar wrote:
> Do you mean with a datacentre in CHCH, or just a phone number?
> 
>  
> 
> CCL infrastructure as a service and compared to off-shore offerings
> would probably be at the highish end price wise.
> 
>  
> 
> Other than that I don't know of any actually in CHCH that I'd consider
> high end.  Maybe Snap?
> 
>  
> 
> If you just need a local phone number Amazon and Rackspace both lave
> local numbers (0800's) and there are some MSP's doing value-add on top
> of Amazon who are local-ish with good in-house resources, although not
> in CHCH, Wellington and AKL.  Fronde do have a local guy though, but
> my impression is that he's not technical and calls the head office for
> tech. issues.
> 
>  
> 
> Any particular reason you need it to be in CHCH?  You're not going to
> be able to go hug-a-server anyway :-)
> 
>  
> 
> As long a the bandwidth / service levels are suitable offshore is
> quite often the most economic path, although if you have data
> sovereignty or IP location issues that's not an option...
> 
>  
> 
> FYI: I look after stuff at linode, rackspace and AWS along with a
> customer who uses CCL, and they all have their good points and
> not-so-good ones.  CCL is not a patch on the other three for maturity
> of service offering and flexibility but that customer has sovereignty
> issues which make off-sure not an option.
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers, Chris H.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Steve Holdoway" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, 12 February, 2015 16:16
> To: "Canterbury Linux Users Group"
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Linux-users] Highish end VPS providers in Christchurch???
> 
> 
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Can anyone recommend providers of such a service? I'm looking to add a
> new node to an existing HA solution to move away from the single
> provider setup that I've inherited ( and which belched rather loudly a
> week or so ago, disconnecting services for half an hour or so ).
> 
> Apologies if off topic - it will of course be running linux (:
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Steve
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