I would agree with Linode for US/UK, you can use RimuHosting to get a VPN in .au and .nz, http://rimuhosting.com/datacenters.jsp#a9 and you could use an EC2 instance to get one in Singapore, http://www.virtualservers.co.za/local-virtual-private-servers is based out of South Africa and seems to be good, finally, http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=870986 has a list in South America
Brandon Burton sysadmin and technologist http://www.inatree.org/ http://www.twitter.com/solarce On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Michael Gorsuch <michael.gors...@gmail.com > wrote: > Another vote for Linode. I use their systems for both personal and > professional use, and have been a customer for several years. > > --Michael > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Nick Silkey <n...@silkey.org> wrote: > >> 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/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > >
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