Re: [firebird-support] FB in Azure VM?

2017-06-21 Thread Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com [firebird-support]
Hi, For 6 months of fees of powerful Azure VM you can buy the whole server. I don't know if they charge for IO rounds, like Amazon - there IO adds a huge $$ to the bill. If you want your database hosted and be reliable and safe - rent 2 servers with SSD in Hetzner and install asynchronous

RE: [firebird-support] FB in Azure VM?

2017-06-21 Thread Thomas Kragh t...@uvdata.dk [firebird-support]
Hej Kjell I had a look at Azure some time ago, the showstopper for me was the SLA, in order to get 99.95% uptime you had to use availability sets, as Azure would reboot your virtual machine for platform maintenance, and leve the other(s) in the availability sets online. For this to work,

RE: [firebird-support] FB in Azure VM?

2017-06-21 Thread 'Louis van Alphen' lo...@nucleo.co.za [firebird-support]
] Sent: Wednesday, 21 June, 2017 13:18 To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [firebird-support] FB in Azure VM? With Azure - AFAIKnew two VM are never guaranteed to be anywhere close to each other. This was a total turn off for me, given that bandwidth for each server is based

RE: [firebird-support] FB in Azure VM?

2017-06-21 Thread 'Alan McDonald' a...@meta.com.au [firebird-support]
With Azure - AFAIKnew two VM are never guaranteed to be anywhere close to each other. This was a total turn off for me, given that bandwidth for each server is based on cost and very expensive, the two servers would often suffer from one or both ends being thorttled back to almost nothing.