>> They do not offer Win2K3 cloud servers. You might be thinking of Rackspace Cloud *Sites*, which do offer Windows options. However, these are not servers: you cannot shell into them, add/remove software, change configurations, access the file system, etc. With a Cloud Server, you have a virtual machine that you interact with identically to any other box. With my current situation of being 1700 miles away from the leafe.com box in my house, I work with both that physical box and my cloud sites exactly the same way; the experience is the same.<<
Like I said, I am a third party to this process, but I am running a rackspace device that has on it SQL Server 2005, and VFP 9 SP2 latest hotfixes (which we loaded) and some data, programs, etc. I remote desktop into this cloud server/site/box. Maybe this is a managed hosting device instead of a virtual machine, but the arrangement smells a lot like the one you get from the Amazon cloud. Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com www.swfox.net www.rickschummer.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] VMware ESXi Server, and other VMware virtualization solutions On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Rick Schummer wrote: >>> I don't think that they offer Windows servers in the cloud yet; I > know that they've been negotiating with Microsoft for some time to > try to > come up with a licensing agreement that will make that possible.<< > > Good thing Ed is not in sales <g>, but his advice is good to chat > with a > rep. > > I am working with a Windows 2003 server in the Rackspace cloud with > SQL > Server Express loaded. My client is paying an arm and a leg for it > though, > but for my client it is worth the expense for their business. It is > a real > nice setup so far. Right now the Rackspace Cloud offers the following Cloud Servers: CentOS (2 versions) Gentoo Debian Fedora (2 versions) Ubuntu (3 versions) Arch RedHat Enterprise They do not offer Win2K3 cloud servers. You might be thinking of Rackspace Cloud *Sites*, which do offer Windows options. However, these are not servers: you cannot shell into them, add/remove software, change configurations, access the file system, etc. With a Cloud Server, you have a virtual machine that you interact with identically to any other box. With my current situation of being 1700 miles away from the leafe.com box in my house, I work with both that physical box and my cloud sites exactly the same way; the experience is the same. -- Ed Leafe [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/01fc01c9f484$fd5004f0$f7f00e...@com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
