[Haskell-cafe] Anyone recommend a VPS?

[Neil Davies]

Hi

We run a the whole of our distributed file system (AFS) on a single  
AWS micro instance with linux containers inside.

We then use other instances for various things as/when needed (using  
kerberos to distributed the management and control to the appropriate  
people). For example we have a EC2 machine that we power up and down  
as needed (still have to pay for the filestore when not being used -  
but that is very small) for GHC - used it this morning to upgrade our  
shared (via AFS) development environment to 7.0.2. All our other  
systems read of that (we are completely distributed operation).

They've been great - had a physical processor go bad once - and also  
they had a h/w problem on one the machines once, that is in last 2  
years or so about 6 operational system years.

Neil





On 19 Mar 2011, at 11:36, Pasqualino Titto Assini wrote:

> If you need to run your server continuously you might be better off
> with a cheap dedicated server.
>
> To run my quid2.org site, a rather complex setup with a web server and
> a number of background haskell processes, I use a server from the
> French provider OVH/Kimsufi (http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/  and
> http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/dedicated_offers.xml ,main site is
> ovh.com).
>
> You can get a decent box for 15 euro a month and a hell of a machine
> for 50/60 euros.
>
> They also have some Cloud/VPS options, that I have not used.
>
>
> Does anyone have first-hand experience with Amazon EC2?
>
> They also look very tempting.
>
>
> Best,
>
>            titto
>
>
> On 19 March 2011 10:12, Lyndon Maydwell <maydwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone have any Binaries that are built to run on EC2?
>>
>> That would be super!
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Jason Dusek <jason.dusek at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> 2010/01/31 Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de>:
>>>> If all you want is standard debian or such it does'nt matter.
>>>> However I tried installing NixOS Linux and I've had lot's of
>>>> trouble until switching to linode. NixOS was up and running
>>>> within 30min then..
>>>
>>>  How did you get NixOS on your Linode system? They don't seem to
>>>  offer it, last I checked.
>>>
>>>  I'm looking in to doing this with PRGMR, which has pretty good
>>>  pricing though it's not nearly as featureful as Linode.
>>>
>>> --
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