Hosting Services: Dedicated? VPS? Own?

[Cary Gordon]

I have recent experience with Linode, and it hasn’t been wonderful. The company is fine, but getting a good fit with their offerings is difficult.

We are AWS partners and big fans. When we started with AWS, seven years ago, it was a pig in a poke and it was difficult to configure. Now, their offerings are well defined, and most services can be managed through their control panels. With AWS, you can get exactly what you need, where you need it. You can try a configuration, and if it is too big or too small, you can resize it with only a few minutes of downtime.

Cary

On May 11, 2014, at 7:56 AM, Michael J. Paulmeno <mpaulmeno at deltastate.edu> wrote:

> At work our campus IT folks have a set of servers on which they create virtual machines using VMware.  These include Active Directory, WordPress, printing, etc.  Our catalog server is a separate, physical machine here at the library.   
>  
> Where personal projects are concerned, AWS looks interesting, but rather confusing.  I’ve heard good things about Linode:https://www.linode.com/.  Their pricing seems to be comparable to Digital Ocean although I have no experience with either.
>  
> Cheers,
> Mike
>  
> From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 1:49 PM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Hosting Services: Dedicated? VPS? Own?
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> The following is posted on behalf of Jorge Biquez <jbiquez at icsmx.com>. 
> Roy
>  
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Hello all.
>  
> I was wondering how you have your services working?
> I know some of you work in large organizations with on "unlimited"
> budget! but how are they working? I mean. One central mainframe?
> Cloud servers? Cluster of servers online?
>  
> Maybe some of you can not comment at all since it is private information.
>  
> I ask this since we are thinking of having some services in VPS or
> small dedicated servers. Not in a cluster or in a cloud, yet, but
> with some resources shared between them.
>  
> BY the way, if you have worked for personal projects or the ones of
> your work with a good VPS or dedicated server provider please share
> the link of them.
>  
> Have a great day.
>  
>  
>  
> Jorge Biquez
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