I'll check it out! Thanks, John.
Ken
On May 3, 2011, at 11:20 AM, John Lynch wrote:
Ken, Vagrant (vagrantup.com) is a great way to learn Chef -- it lets
you easily build virtual machines for development and testing. Once
you climb up the learning curve its a big time-saver in a lot of
different scenarios.
Regards,
John Lynch
Rigel Group, LLC
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On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Ken Hudson <[email protected]
> wrote:
I've never used Chef but I've heard good things about it. Of
course, one more learning curve... At times like this I wish my
company had more employees than just me! :-)
Thanks,
Ken
On May 3, 2011, at 10:52 AM, James Miller wrote:
Use Chef to configure your servers :)
It's definitely some work up-front to get recipes how you like
them, but then you can build replicas on Slicehost/Rackspace/EC2 in
minutes with confidence that it's done right and you didn't miss
anything.
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Ken Hudson <[email protected]
> wrote:
Thank you for the info James!
Any words of wisdom on the migration?
Thanks, Ken
On May 3, 2011, at 10:44 AM, James Miller wrote:
I moved a client (4 servers) from Slicehost to Rackspace a few
months back and so far it's actually been less expensive.
Slicehost gives you a bunch of bandwidth up-front, whereas
Rackspace charges less for the servers and bandwidth is usage-based.
Slicehost 2GB server w/ 1200GB bandwidth: $130/mo
Rackspace 2GB server: $88/mo + 1200GB bandwidth: $215/mo = $303/mo
(yikes)
In this case, the client only used about 800GB of bandwidth/mo
across all servers so the overall cost went down a bit.
Check your current bandwidth usage and play with the Rackspace
calculator at http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/servers/pricing/
Hopefully this gives some cost perspective, though I definitely
agree that migrating is a pain.
James
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Ken Hudson <[email protected]
> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm not sure how many of you use Slicehost like I do but I
received an email this morning informing me that they are going to
"convert current Slicehost accounts to Rackspace Cloud Servers
accounts over the next year". In other words, they're killing off
Slicehost. In my opinion, Slicehost has been just great (been a
customer for at least 4 years, I think) and from everything I hear
Rackspace is going to me more expensive. Plus I get to do a
migration instead of doing actual productive work.
Anyway, just thought I'd pass this along...
Thanks, Ken
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