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> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:21:02 -0800<BR>> From: adi@hexapodia.org<BR>> To: maltman23@hotmail.com<BR>> CC: noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<BR>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] colo in and around SF?<BR>> <BR>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:23:59PM -0800, Mitch Altman wrote:<BR>> > > Agreed, for most projects a hosted VM is plenty fine. However, if you<BR>> > > have special heavy IO or security and isolation requirements, no<BR>> > > shared hosting platform will beat a dedicated host.<BR>> > > <BR>> > > That said, on the VM front I'd recommend:<BR>> > > - EC2<BR>> > > - Chunkhost<BR>> <BR>> I've had reasonably good success with linode, and I've heard others do<BR>> OK with gandi.net (but they're in France only AFAIK, which is a bit of a<BR>> bummer if you and your users are in the US).<BR>> <BR>> linode in particular is quite a bit cheaper per month than EC2 for the<BR>> baseline config, but they bill by the month not by the hour, and it's a<BR>> bit more annoying to burst up more machines to handle a load spike<BR>> compared to EC2.<BR>> <BR>> linode has facilities in Fremont (where my VM is) and elsewhere in the<BR>> US (Texas, Atlanta, NJ). Huh, and England, I didn't know about that.<BR><BR>
Thanks, Andy.<BR>
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