We are huge with AWS now. We've moved ourselves and several clients from internal data centers and colos to AWS-based servers. We also have a nice-sized cloud-based backup service that we run for DR for our clients that runs in AWS with a primary in the east coast and a secondary (replicated from east coast) on the west coast.
Our MSP monitoring solution runs in the cloud as well. I'd highly recommend taking a look. -----Original Message----- From: tech-boun...@lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Tom Perrine Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 1:20 PM To: Nathan Hruby Cc: LOPSA Tech List Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Recommendations for VPS providers Nathan Hruby 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. At the risk of being accused of being buzzword compliant, have you considered "cloud"? AWS (and other providers) have presences in US, EU and APAC. THere are I wouldn't run a heavy compute load on a cloud server, but for small to medium/large services, they can be a win. You'll get quite a bit of flexibility, but it will be at least slightly more expensive. That said, you can get into cloud with nothing more than a credit card, and not need contracts (and lawyer time). Just another option. --tep _______________________________________________ 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/
