Hi Korny,

I've heard of an AWS competitor starting up in Sydney called OrionVM 
(http://orionvm.com.au/) which might be closer to what you're after but I don't 
have any experience using them yet although we plan to try their services in 
the near future.

Ivan

On 19/01/2011, at 11:38 AM, Korny Sietsma wrote:

> Hi folks - I know this is a FAQ, but one that hasn't been asked for a while, 
> and the answers keep changing!
> 
> We are currently exploring external hosting options for a new site, and were 
> wondering what people's experiences are.
> 
> Some constraints:
> * Australian hosted; we don't want the latency intrinsic in overseas hosting
> * High reliability and potentially high traffic volumes - this is for a big 
> corporation, so decent SLAs are pretty important; and while we'll want to 
> start small, we might have high visibility, and hopefully high usage, down 
> the track
> * Ideally some level of virtualisation - having used ec2 for some stuff, I'd 
> *love* anyone who offers similar flexibility locally, if it exists.
> * The ability to automatically configure machines - we'd like to automate as 
> much as possible, so dev/test/prod environments are built quickly and 
> consistently.
> 
> Note that this isn't a rails app, so rails-specific magic isn't a plus; we 
> really want to configure all the parts of the system ourselves from the OS up.
> 
> Someone pointed me to the list at http://www.vpsau.com/ - but I'd love to 
> know what people's actual experiences are.
> 
> (Also this isn't set in stone - we might be forced to stay internal - but I'm 
> living in hope!)
> 
> - Korny
> 
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