Hurro..
That's interesting that you've had issues with Rackspace, although most
of what I do with them is high-end colo, not cloud. I've only got four
mid-sized virtual boxes of my own and a dozen or so others I look
after. The cloud stuff is pretty simple configs so not had much need
for their support.
OK on the sovereignty, you can't argue with that in some cases. I've
been asked by one of my clients to bring their application 'home' so to
speak and I'm going to be up for some pain if they become serious about
that as it uses cloudfront and RDS with AWS in Sydney... I'm hoping
they'll forget they asked but I don't fancy my chances and I've made
extensive use of the RDS API in some shell scripts and PHP. Could be
some sleepless nights replacing that with another ORM. Joy.
With the scale of box you need I'd be interested to know where you wind
up going, although I can't really recommend anyone from direct
experience locally at that scale. Per my suggestions and the others
you'll have to let your fingers do the walking....
Freelance sysadmin, that sounds good.. My title is a bit harder to tie
down that that, at times I wonder exactly what the heck it is I'm meant
to be doing lately to be honest... Long story, tangled web we weave
etc. :-)
Cheers, Chris H.
On 12/02/15 18:16, Steve Holdoway wrote:
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,
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