Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 08:14:44 +0100 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4sot2c-p9v.ln1@squidward.dionic.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net cSpJg+4gOSzzDF9CLxfqGgoCicAAdNnYCZMiKa2F0c/0FoEUbJ X-Orig-Path: squidward.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:4bebpI3wTGPFV+bf2q6HBHEMhtM= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:14806 On 20/05/15 07:55, Tim Watts wrote: > So I am not sure why people rave so much over Amazon... I would add, that for the odd server, Linode are very good. OTOH it gets expensive fast of you need loads. What we really need is the ability to buy a VMWare resource pool plus a load of IPv4 addresses with the freedom to do what we like within the pool. Most of the time our VMs (web servers) are very low consumption, but periodically one will need to do some serious work. This works well now as it basically can access all the resource it wants that is not being used by any other VM. But I have no idea if there's a name for "buy a resource pool". Is that a private cloud? Hybrid cloud? Too much marketing bollocks and silly jargon obscuring something that is basically actually very simple. I guess I'll have to phone some sales weasels.