Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums? Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 21:53:36 +0100 Lines: 22 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net wgk8WrjwrV5PjygKouI2tw73xzvGKDwlCZdJSsi5kXxq5UQp+j X-Orig-Path: squidward.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:JVvo2HmlO7zMPbHGSB115iQCyvE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:14801 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