Re: [silk] server hosting in india

2011-01-24 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 19-Jan-2011, at 3:27 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: I know about E2E networks already (hi Tarun!), and it's really the leading alternative. It is also more expensive than Linode, but not disproportionately so. I'll add a +1 for them. Been at E2E over a month now with no concerns. Great

Re: [silk] server hosting in india

2011-01-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Abhijit Menon-Sen [19/01/11 15:27 +0530]: My general reaction to Net4 is uniformly negative and I'd really rather not host with them, but I'm told they've become better recently. But they charge a hell of a lot, and their monthly data transfer limit is netmagic solutions is probably the only

Re: [silk] server hosting in india

2011-01-19 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote: My general reaction to Net4 is uniformly negative and I'd really rather not host with them, but I'm told they've become better recently. Whosoever has told you about them getting better should either get off your friend

Re: [silk] server hosting in india

2011-01-19 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote: (a) experience with Net4India's VPS hosting, and Net4 sucks. Like a blackhole. (b) recommendations of any other VPS hosting providers in India? I have been using Nettigtitty and have to say they are excellent.

Re: [silk] server hosting in india

2011-01-19 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2011-01-19 02:10:10 -0800, sur...@hserus.net wrote: i'd rather not touch net4india with a bargepole Yeah. I've been not-touching-them-with-a-bargepole for so long that it's sometimes difficult to explain to people why I prefer to avoid them. :-) -- ams

Re: [silk] server hosting in india

2011-01-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:27:04PM +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: Personally, I'd much rather get a Linode or Hetzner VPS, but for this particular application, better connectivity from India would be good. Can you give me an IP or a network to traceroute to? According to

Re: [silk] server hosting in india

2011-01-19 Thread Jude Britto
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote: Personally, I'd much rather get a Linode or Hetzner VPS, but for this particular application, better connectivity from India would be good. Amazon EC2 instances in Singapore. The pricing seems very complicated though.

Re: [silk] server hosting in india

2011-01-19 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2011-01-19 15:44:57 +0530, sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote: That is, if the said limits can actually be attained. Limits? We don't need no steenkin' limits. I asked the Net4 chap what peak transfer rate they could give us, and he said 10GB. So I said *rate*, not *size*, and he said

Re: [silk] server hosting in india

2011-01-19 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote: I know about E2E networks already (hi Tarun!), and it's really the leading alternative. It is also more expensive than Linode, but not disproportionately so. I know Tarun so I guess these guys must be pretty clued in.

Re: [silk] server hosting in india

2011-01-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 02:34:00AM -0800, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: france or europe quite close to india, traceroute wise? Wasn't at all sure, just the cable landing site in South France could indicate a data center near Paris might be well-connected. Apparently, not. not too much. you'd

Re: [silk] server hosting in india

2011-01-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Eugen Leitl [19/01/11 11:59 +0100]: not too much. you'd find that - for most ISPs, singapore would be a safe bet for network proximity and quality datacenters. not cheap though Good to know. How is mainland China? Painfully slow because traffic in/out of the mainland goes through the great

Re: [silk] server hosting in india

2011-01-19 Thread Venkat Mangudi
On Wednesday 19 January 2011 09:00 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: Interesting, but certainly too complicated for me to follow. Especially with the new spot pricing model. I tried the calculator, but I wasn't quite sure that I had all the right sort of ducks lined up in a row to get a