Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums?

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From	Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net>
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Subject	Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums?
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On 20/05/15 00:05, Bruce Sinclair wrote:

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>> (Who said outsourcing saves money?)
>
>
> Ooo! ... ooo  !    I know this one ... pick me ! ...
>
>
> .. the outsourcers (of course :) ).
>

And a lot of people bang on about Amazon 
AWS/VPC/whatever-todays-product-is-called.

But from what I can see and tried:

1) If the host dies, you need manual intervention to get you VM back;

2) No IPv6;

3) No VM console access (linuux VMs dump their output to a bufffer, but 
no direct input possible).

4) The most obtuse pricing model under the sun.

1+3 are killers and seem to preclude using amazon to run "some servers 
that need to stay up". I rely on 4 very occasionally to fix a machine 
(usually fsck threw a wobbler). 1 is just poor.

2 is not so urgent for us but does not inspire much confidence...

4 could be defended - you pay for what you use - but it makes estimation 
of costs very difficult, even when you have a year's worth of usage 
stats from VMWare.

So I am not sure why people rave so much over Amazon...

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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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