On Jun 19, 2009, at 9:36 PM, Gilbert M. Hale wrote:
>> Why are others looking into virtual? $$ or copy paste to new device?
>
> I have saved over $40k going to this architecture thus far, and had
> I needed
> to license VirtualCenter it would have only added maybe $3k more.
You should also look into Cloud Servers, which are virtual servers
hosted by Rackspace (http://www.mosso.com/cloudservers.jsp). It's like
having a server that you manage via remote access: exactly what I'm
doing in effect with the leafe.com and dabodev.com server, now that
I'm half a continent away. It costs pennies per hour; an average size
server is about $40/month, and the cheapest is around $12/month, and
you have full root access to it. Best of all, if you get a spike in
traffic, it automatically expands to handle that extra bandwidth, and
you only pay for what you use. Contrast with physical servers that you
house on-site: if the traffic to them spikes, you either a) lose
business or b) pay a lot for extra capacity up-front that you may
never need.
BTW, every email from this list passes through my cloud server. If
you are a Dabo user, every web update call runs through it, too, as
well as all the browserless web app traffic. It was a cheap way to get
a fixed IP address that I can use as a relay, and a very cheap way of
getting much more reliability than I can get from my personal
RoadRunner account. I'm slowly moving more and more of the services on
my physical box to the cloud server, with the goal of shutting down
that server before we sell the house.
Know what else is cool? Let's say you want to make a major change to
your current server without worrying about screwing things up. All you
do is make a backup of your current server (takes very little time;
about the same as making a VMWare snapshot), create a new server from
that image, and then play around with the cloned server to test the
changes you have in mind. If you mess things up, you delete the clone
and make another from the backup image, and try again. When you are
confident that you can make the change, you do it on your main server,
and delete all the clones. You only pay for the time that the clones
were in existence; you can create and destroy them quickly, and you
only pay for the time that they are in existence. IOW, you could have
a completely separate instance of your server to test with for, say, 4
hours, destroying and recreating it as needed, and you'd only pay
about 25 cents for that!!
-- Ed Leafe
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