Comments on: Downtime, DR and the Cloud http://opensourcegeek.org/2009/06/08/dr-and-the-cloud/ Days in the life of an aging, open source geek Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:19:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Richard http://opensourcegeek.org/2009/06/08/dr-and-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Richard Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:57:26 +0000 http://opensourcegeek.org/?p=237#comment-36 I lost 2 VPSs with VAserv recently. One was a backup NS and MX and as I have 2 others it wasn't an issue. This one came back up quickly. The other one was a monitoring server. This died with all the historic stats. Not to important but had to go through the pain of setting up another. This time I chucked it on one of my physical external servers. (Not ideal but as both the VAserv VPS and the Blue Square Physical servers are pretty much in the same building I'm not really loosing anything). I have a few VPS's across a few providers. These were just set up as adhoc projects for customers when I didn't have enough left over capacity to host them myself. Seriously thinking of just getting another physical server count and chucking these few VPS's on though the server will probably have left over capacity on it. So if Amazon EC2 doesn't work out economical let me know :-) I lost 2 VPSs with VAserv recently.

One was a backup NS and MX and as I have 2 others it wasn’t an issue. This one came back up quickly.

The other one was a monitoring server. This died with all the historic stats. Not to important but had to go through the pain of setting up another. This time I chucked it on one of my physical external servers. (Not ideal but as both the VAserv VPS and the Blue Square Physical servers are pretty much in the same building I’m not really loosing anything).

I have a few VPS’s across a few providers. These were just set up as adhoc projects for customers when I didn’t have enough left over capacity to host them myself. Seriously thinking of just getting another physical server count and chucking these few VPS’s on though the server will probably have left over capacity on it.

So if Amazon EC2 doesn’t work out economical let me know :-)

]]> By: Admin http://opensourcegeek.org/2009/06/08/dr-and-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Admin Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:23:25 +0000 http://opensourcegeek.org/?p=237#comment-35 Thanks Rich, will do. I will see how Amazon works out after having had the site there for a month. If it works out to cost what I expect, then I think I will keep OSG there Cheers Thanks Rich, will do. I will see how Amazon works out after having had the site there for a month. If it works out to cost what I expect, then I think I will keep OSG there

Cheers

]]> By: Richard http://opensourcegeek.org/2009/06/08/dr-and-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Richard Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:19:03 +0000 http://opensourcegeek.org/?p=237#comment-34 Any chance it was VAServ? If you need a vps in a hurry next time just let me know mate. Any chance it was VAServ?

If you need a vps in a hurry next time just let me know mate.

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