In response David Mandel gave some background on the economics of colocation in Portland. This lead to discussing VM host services. Which, in my mind, is a better way to go. It is more efficient for physical and power resources and usually more flexible for the user.
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:26:49PM -0700, Larry Brigman wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:53 PM, David Mandel <dman...@pdxlinux.org> wrote: > > There are a number of small, friendly, high quality for-profit hosting > > services in Portland. The one that comes to my mind is forked.net. I > > used them for several years and really like them. > > Not co-location service but virtual machine from a local group is > www.rdrop.com I used agora for the longest time and helped Alan > out a couple of times getting him hardware at cost. I used rdrop.com (well, Agora) for dial up shell account services when I first moved to Portland in 1990. Batie always provided great service. The rdrop.com site suggests high bandwidth users consider http://www.downloadtech.com/ I use a VM at my domain registrar, gandi.net, that costs $15/month per "share". 1 dedicate processor core, 256Mb RAM, 8G disk, 5Mb/s bandwidth. This can statically or dynamically be scaled up to 24 shares http://www.gandi.net/hosting/vps#main-nav What is your VM host recommendation? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Trading kilograms for kilometers since 2003 Be appropriate && Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The Fortune Cookie Fortune today is: You will forget that you ever knew me. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
