I've thought about it on several occasions, but it hasn't worked out as a cost effective option for my use cases.
I have two VM host servers, 6TB of iSCSI SAN storage, 8 full-time VMs, and 4-8 other VMs that get created for testing, etc. Backups are scripted, so I don't have to think about it a whole lot beyond looking at my logs, and I have no other ongoing costs but electricity (which I would have to some degree anyway). My last hardware failure (in 2009) is what led me to to double up the VM host servers, so now I could run all my critical VMs on just one of the hosts, if necessary. I cannot see a scenario that will trump that flexibility for me, especially now that my broadband speeds are back in the 4-6mbps range (down from 20-25mbps range) Regards, *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market…* On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:53 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > I am thinking of migrating my home lab "to the cloud" and was wondering if > anyone has done so. I've been looking at Amazon and Azure - Amazon have > more in the way of "free" micro-instances to get you up and running, but > Azure seems a helluva lot cheaper overall. Has anyone gone this route (or > similar)? I am sick and tired of doing backups of VMs and data, being > crippled by hardware failures, spending lots of time maintaining the lab > itself, etc. and was wondering if anyone has any pointers to share around > possible migration to an online service? > > Cheers, > > > > -- > *James Rankin* > Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) > http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk >
