Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:19 PM, George Herbert
<george.herbert () gmail com> wrote:
> Failing to have central shared storage (iSCSI, NAS, SAN, whatever you
> prefer) fails the smell test on a local enterprise-grade
> virtualization cluster, much less a shared cloud service.

Hi George,

Why would you imagine that a $30/month virtual private server is built
on an enterprise-grade virtualization cluster? You know what it costs
to builds fibre channel SANs and blade servers and DR. In what
universe does $30/mo per customer recover that cost during the useful
life of the equipment?

A VPS is 2012's version of 2002's web server + CGI and a unix shell.
Quite useful but don't expect magic from it.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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