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Re:How Lanyrd moved from AWS to SoftLayer and MySQL to Postg... by boundlessdreamz on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @11:58AM (#4778975)
Who are the other reliable providers offer value for money in US ?
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Re:How Lanyrd moved from AWS to SoftLayer and MySQL to Postg... by staunch on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @02:09PM (#4779932)
My startup does: https://uptano.com
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Re:How Lanyrd moved from AWS to SoftLayer and MySQL to Postg... by X-Istence on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @06:05PM (#4781143)
What virtualisation tech do you guys use? Can I run FreeBSD on top of it?
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Re:How Lanyrd moved from AWS to SoftLayer and MySQL to Postg... by staunch on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @06:33PM (#4781229)
OpenVZ (because it's closer to bare metal performance), which limits it to Linux distributions currently. We've had requests for FreeBSD though, and we're adding Xen support soon which should allow that.
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Re:How Lanyrd moved from AWS to SoftLayer and MySQL to Postg... by X-Istence on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @07:21PM (#4781393)
FreeBSD on top of Xen has limitations (such as only one virtual CPU (AFAIK)) and in my testing is really unstable. Would you consider using something like KVM instead which has less issues?
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Re:How Lanyrd moved from AWS to SoftLayer and MySQL to Postg... by staunch on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @09:56PM (#4781805)
It's definitely possible. We're not wed to any particular container/virtualization system. Networking tends to be a bit of a tricky issue, but I'll definitely check out FreeBSD on KVM. Thanks for the heads up.
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Re:How Lanyrd moved from AWS to SoftLayer and MySQL to Postg... by neverm0re on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @12:27PM (#4779200)
There's new players all the time and a lot of mom-n-pop type shops out there that actually can reliably deliver 100Mbps and 1Gbps pipes, though some are certainly shady.

I've named the ones I feel comfortable mentioning, but if you really want to know more about what's out there, there's a number of forums like Web Hosting Talk where the actual companies maintain presences to run promotional deals -- and there's a lot of public opinions aired about how said companies are doing. There's going to be some rather uninformed opinions aired, but most people can tell you when there's a real problem.

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