Look for providers supporting libcloud. And cloudkick is some real integration hotness for VPSes. Your employer may go for it.
Another vote for Linode. $work doesn't use them, but I do for non-work matters. Multi-US datacenters plus a UK location. Dashboard plus console for Xen containers is top notch. Kickstarting into the containers is braindead easy for pressable machines that smell like you/work/etc. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 10, 2010, at 12:07 PM, Nathan Hruby <nhr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We have a project whereby we'd like to stand up a number of small > virtual machines that are geographically distributed around the globe. > On these we would like to run some small, simple, custom monitoring > scripts on them to give us some very specific performance information. > We might be able to use a 3rd party monitoring provider with a > suitable amount of data manipulation to get their data into our > format, but franky we have this code in-house already. Having some > shells available in far-flung places is an added plus for diagnosis > runs that makes rolling our own little monitoring solution seem like > the best option. > > We've looked at a few VPS providers and haven't really found anyone > that we really truly like so I'm reaching out to the LOPSA community > to see if anyone have VPS providers who they like and/or recommend. > At this point, we might be willing to engage a number of smaller > regional providers to get the best deal versus one large global > provider, so give a shout out to your favorite non-US small VPS > provider if you have one as well! > > Thanks! > > -n > -- > ------------------------------------------- > nathan hruby <nhr...@gmail.com> > metaphysically wrinkle-free > ------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lopsa.org > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
