On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 3:47 PM cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote:
> Do you run OI on VPS or dedicated server? > I run other illumos distributions (OmniOS, Tribblix) on dedicated hardware, VPS providers, and the cloud. > Does OI suitable to run on a VPS at all? > Certainly. Like anything, provided you meet the requirements. > It seems normal cheap VPS plan of many host providers will be not enough. > OI takes much more disk space than Linux because of Boot Environments. That varies. You can trim boot environments, so they don't take that much space. And I find Linux distributions generally to chew through a lot of space, especially as you get all sorts of odd packages installed unnecessarily because they're thought to be required (turning off recommends can help). > So it seems I will need to upgrade the storage plan. OI also needs more > memory to work because of pkg so I will need more memory, too. This end up > with a not cheap at all VPS whose resources (cores, memory, storage space) > will be same same as my home PC. > > If it's so, does a dedicate server should be more preferred? > Not really, it's true that you might struggle with the smaller VPS sizing, but even if you have to avoid those you can still go a lot smaller than a dedicated server. > But if it's the case, why someone consider running OI in the first place > instead of Linux since Linux is a much cheaper option? > As always, choose whichever option best serves your needs. > I'm talking about normal KVM host providers here. > The things that can cause problems are (a) if they force virtio-scsi, which we don;t yet have, or (b) if they don't offer some sort of install from ISO option, which can be worked around in some cases. > I have no idea about the cloud (AWS, GCE, Azure,...) at all. > I'm not aware of AMIs for OI, but they're not hard to makes, so AWS wouldn't be a problem. I've run OmniOS on Azure; I've not run any illumos on GCE myself, but I think it's possible. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss