You can create a linux to run on Amazon's EC2 cloud by using Novels/ Suse's Studio package. Studio is a web site that allows you to create a OpenSUSE 11.1 and other linux distro's (i think) appliances with hatever components you want from their Opensuse build service which supports gazzilions of packages for quite a few distro's and produce it for use on Amazon's EC2, or VMware/Xen images, ISO images, USB boot etc. It will be a really cool tool when it is fully released. They demo's this at VMWorld recently.
Then you have can buy whatever amount of Oomph you need to service the load. This would seem to be a good way. The device drivers when you make VMware and Xen images on an opensuse 11 image have very optimised drivers The Network drivers run the whole socket, TCP, IP, ICMP and Mac layers on the NIC, so the data goes straight between the cable and the users application data space via the hardware. Good for 10gbit and 1gb networks, Broadcom NIC's only at this point, maybe the Intel ones soon. Worth keeping an eye open on when Studio goes full production. On Oct 31, 8:39 am, Richard Heycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of my clients uses crucialparadigm.com and I've been quite impressed > with them so far. There ticketing system is a little primitive but they > usually react within half an hour and what's more they follow up until > the ticket is fixed. > > One company I would avoid like the plague is web24 they are based in > Melbourne and are shocking. For example they throttled my CPU quota > by a factor of three and didn't actually tell me; if they needed you > to contact them for whatever reason the email usually consisted of one > word: "phone". > > rgh > > Excerpts from Cameron Barrie's message of Wed Oct 29 12:42:03 +1100 2008: > > > I use Rimuhosting, who have VPS's in Sydney. They've always been great > > to deal with. > > > Cam > > > On 29/10/2008, at 11:54 AM, Torm3nt wrote: > > > > I've got a VPS with crucialparadigm.com > > > > They were quick to respond, their support so far has been excellent > > > (the person I talked to was able to help me out within seconds), and > > > the line I'm on is quite fast, based in Sydney. > > > > hope that helps :) > > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Rex Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Just wondering if anyone recommends a VPS that is based in NZ or Aus? > > > The client is building a site for NZ users, I'm not sure if there's > > > much speed improvement hosting directly in NZ or Aus vs US? > > > > Thank you, > > > Rex. > > -- > +61 (0) 410 646 369 > [e]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [im]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and > I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet > them - Marcus Ranum --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
