On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Ed Leafe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 19, 2009, at 9:36 PM, Gilbert M. Hale wrote: > > >> Why are others looking into virtual? $$ or copy paste to new device? > > > > I have saved over $40k going to this architecture thus far, and had > > I needed > > to license VirtualCenter it would have only added maybe $3k more. > > You should also look into Cloud Servers, which are virtual servers > hosted by Rackspace (http://www.mosso.com/cloudservers.jsp). It's like > having a server that you manage via remote access: exactly what I'm > doing in effect with the leafe.com and dabodev.com server, now that > I'm half a continent away. It costs pennies per hour; an average size > server is about $40/month, and the cheapest is around $12/month, and > you have full root access to it. Best of all, if you get a spike in > traffic, it automatically expands to handle that extra bandwidth, and > you only pay for what you use. Contrast with physical servers that you > house on-site: if the traffic to them spikes, you either a) lose > business or b) pay a lot for extra capacity up-front that you may > never need. > > BTW, every email from this list passes through my cloud server. If > you are a Dabo user, every web update call runs through it, too, as > well as all the browserless web app traffic. It was a cheap way to get > a fixed IP address that I can use as a relay, and a very cheap way of > getting much more reliability than I can get from my personal > RoadRunner account. I'm slowly moving more and more of the services on > my physical box to the cloud server, with the goal of shutting down > that server before we sell the house. > --------------------------------------------------
Ed I am considering the combination of 6 servers at this time. How long will it take to load up into the cloud 25 gig our smallest client to 250 gig our largest one? This is all SQL Server data. Do we upload our backups and logs and just restore away? Or is there another loader for dealing with the cloud? -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer SQL Server DBA Web and Winform Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
