Thanks for the reply Elijah. Geographic area is not of huge concern.... mid-west I suppose, Iowa to Ohio, Michigan to Louisiana. Currently OVH is out of Canada near New York, so a half-dozen milliseconds one way or the other isn't a big deal.
# of Servers: I'd like to start small before going all in. A headnode plus 3-5 compute nodes I suppose. Hands on is not of huge importance, but if it were I'd say "Indianapolis" to the first question which I'm sure really limits my options. It doesn't need to be tested server configurations, I'll take the responsibility of making sure that what is offered is compatible-enough. I'll check out Switch Supernap, thanks for that. And finally, yes I did look at the Joyent Public cloud, and its pricing. It's well above the per-VM pricing we're able to accomplish with Proxmox running at OVH. Multiply that times a few hundred web servers, and we'd be out of business running on the JPC. On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Elijah Zupancic <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jon, > > What geographical area are you looking to host in? How many servers do you > want to deploy? Do you want to be hands on? Do you want to use tested > server configurations? > > As for specific hosting providers / data centers, I know that the Switch > Supernap has lots of experience hosting SDC. > > Also, just for a sanity check, you may want to see if running your > virtualized servers in Joyent public cloud work technically and > financially. Don't be afraid to reach out to the Joyent folks because they > may be able to point you in the right direction - I promise they are nice. > > Thanks, > Elijah > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:56 PM Jon Dison <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Would anyone care to share their experience running at a dedicated >> hosting provider? >> >> I currently virtualize a lot of web servers on Proxmox hosted at OVH and >> would love to switch over to SmartOS, but OVH's network infrastructure is >> fairly cookie-cutter and they don't really allow you to get the sort of >> network plumbing setup that SmartOS requires, especially SDC. >> >> Has anyone managed to successfully setup SmartOS at OVH? >> Has anyone setup SmartOS and/or SDC somewhere else and have had a >> positive experience? >> >> The thing I like about OVH is their prices. I suppose you get what you >> pay for. >> But the same servers are twice as much with other providers and I haven't >> gotten a guarantee from them that they can setup the networking the way >> that I want either. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Jon >> > *smartos-discuss* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/24572942-77406857> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
