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From: Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net>
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Subject: Re: Cloud hosting - good groups or forums?
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 07:55:24 +0100
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On 20/05/15 00:05, Bruce Sinclair wrote:

>>
>> (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...