On 2012-09-07, at 11:07 PM, Magnus <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 7, 2012, at 10:42 PM, Adam Del Vecchio wrote: >> >> Could you perhaps link me to that thread if it was on this list? > > This was on IRC.
Oh, alright. > >> But are there providers offering OI at this cost? I understand what you >> mean, but of course the same is true for any hosting environment or company. > > Right now I'm paying about $9/month for a CentOS VPS from Interserver. I'd be > willing to pay a small premium over that for a similarly configured Illumos > zone (OpenIndiana or OmniOS would both be fine). I'm on an older plan that > they don't seem to offer anymore, but for $12/month with Interserver you get > 1 virtual core, 0.75GB RAM, 50GB disk, 6Mbps (1.8TB/month). To be honest, > I'm surprised there aren't more low cost Illumos-based options out there. > > Entic is the only provider that I'm aware of right now selling OI VPS's but > the cost is not within the realm of what I'd be willing to spend for a > personal use VPS. Hmm, I see. I think I could implement a better solution than Entic. > > The opportunities seem so slim that I keep getting this idea in my head of > buying a nicely spec'd entry level 1U server, carving out a couple of zones > for my own use, and leasing out the rest of the surplus capacity on the box > by the slice to recoup the costs. > > -M Well, that is what I'm asking! =) > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -Adam _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
