Hi Bruce, I've used Linode for personal applications like IRC and testing web services, but have not applied it towards any live Evergreen systems. I have created test droplets with DigitalOcean too, back when they were one of the leaders in use of SSD disk storage, and that was certainly a nice hosted environment. The SSDs make things speedier when you don't necessarily have all the memory you'd like to run things fast.
These are some areas I would be check before using any third-party host environment: 1) Making sure to spec out a powerful enough system (or more than one instance if needed). Getting the right amount of resources for CPU, RAM, disk space can be very important when putting together a proper Evergreen system. Even a test server could malfunction on less than 2 GB of RAM (with memory killers wrecking your installed instance). So having an appropriate sized instance is important. 2) Knowing what your data protection services are like. In the past, with groups like DigitalOcean, they had issues where the data in the instances could be leaked due to not properly deleting content between node rebuilds (which has since been fixed, as far as I last read). But how safe is your data "in the cloud"? What rules govern how your instances are accessed? With library data, I try to be cautious on this front. I'll let others chime in when they can, but hopefully this gets some conversation going for you. Good luck in your investigations, and feel free to ask further questions as applicable. -- Ben On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:12 PM, Bruce Willms <[email protected]> wrote: > We are just gearing up to set up an instance of Evergreen and are wondering > if anyone is running the system on a hosted VPS service like Linode. It > seems like a reasonable solution in our case since we don’t have IT staff to > support a server, etc. I’m curious to know if others have done this and > what their experience has been – good, bad, or otherwise. Or if this is a > recipe for disaster. > > > > I’m new to this list and to Evergreen, and looking for some pointers from > experienced hands. > > > > Bruce Willms > > East Side Freedom Library > > St. Paul, MN > > > > > > > > -- Benjamin Shum Evergreen Systems Manager Bibliomation, Inc. 24 Wooster Ave. Waterbury, CT 06708 203-577-4070, ext. 113
