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 > > -- > Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com http://korny.info > "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part > that wonders what the part that isn't thinking > isn't thinking of" > > -- > 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. -- 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.
