Cloud hosting - good groups or forums?

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From	Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net>
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Subject	Cloud hosting - good groups or forums?
Date	Tue, 19 May 2015 21:53:36 +0100
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Anyone know any?

We're running a mid sized VMWare cluster at work and it's EOL next year.
The original plan was to simply replace it in situ - but for various 
reasons that option may be untenable.

I'm trying to get my head around external hosting (of >160 Debian VMs to 
claim on-topic) - but so far my limited enquiries have concluded that 
cloud hosting will cost us about 5-7 times what it costs to buy and 
house our own hardware and VMWare licenses, including backup/DR.

(Who said outsourcing saves money?)

I have tried and failed to find a very general VM/cloud forum/group 
covering the UK and/or the EU to bat some ideas around and I suspect 
this is not the place to get specific. Does not have to be VMWare centric...

If anyone has any leads I would be very grateful :)

Cheers!

Tim

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Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-19 21:53 +0100
  Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? noydb@no.way (Bruce Sinclair) - 2015-05-19 23:05 +0000
    Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-20 07:55 +0100
      Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-20 08:14 +0100
        Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-05-20 09:26 +0100
          Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-20 10:26 +0100
        Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2015-05-20 13:44 +0000
          Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-20 15:31 +0100
    Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-20 13:06 +0100
  Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-20 08:46 +0100
  Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-21 11:11 +0100
    Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2015-05-21 12:27 +0200
      Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-21 14:52 +0100
        Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-05-21 22:51 +0100
          Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-21 23:57 +0100
            Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-05-22 00:07 +0100
              Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-05-22 08:54 +0100

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