I'd avoid iStrata at this point.
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Rob - Mar 16, 2012 11:13:08 am PDT #19675 of 25501
§ ita § - Mar 18, 2012 5:49:28 pm PDT #19676 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, me too. I think you want more management than this. They just toss a server into your virtual lap and walk away. But I've never had a dedicated server at anything smaller than a corporate level anywhere else, so I have no recommendations.
Anyone here running Office XP?
Typo Boy - Mar 18, 2012 5:52:05 pm PDT #19677 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I'm running office XP. Also I'm told Amazon offers dedicated and virtual servers at the corporate level and high end indvidual level. They may be exceptionally evil even by corporate standards and I have no idea of how good the service offered is. But happened to be talking to the guy who does their custom servers today. (His wife is being nice enough to make a free video for me.) So I know the service exists.
shrift - Mar 18, 2012 6:38:15 pm PDT #19678 of 25501
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I've been trying Amazon EC2, but I'm having difficulty understanding their management console, and I couldn't figure out how to connect to an instance successfully once I'd launched it.
§ ita § - Mar 18, 2012 6:40:43 pm PDT #19679 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Insent, Typo.
My boss keeps talking about "spinning up app servers in the cloud", and I know he knows his shit, but this particular app is so integrated into our back end, including servers behind our firewall, I'm not sure how we'd actually pull it off.
It seems to be a better solution for apps that are going to run entirely in the cloud, or integrate reasonably...I am blocking on a technical term...formally and distantly via secured web services, and then there's firewall shit, and dblinks, and...just too complicated.
shrift - Mar 18, 2012 7:08:38 pm PDT #19680 of 25501
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Yeah, everyone's all about the cloud right now, and what I need is a sandbox.
Typo Boy - Mar 18, 2012 9:26:46 pm PDT #19681 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
ita ! replied, but not very helpful I'm afraid.
Rob - Mar 18, 2012 11:15:38 pm PDT #19682 of 25501
dreamhost offers dedicated servers, and they are a pretty well known quantity.
Rackspace has been around a long time.
If you can make do with VPS, everyone I know says Linode is great.
Calli - Mar 19, 2012 6:53:45 am PDT #19683 of 25501
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
My org's web IT guy says that Hosted Solutions is pretty good. WRAL, a local news station, uses them. Apparently they got eaten by Windstream a while ago, but I don't think that's affected their services. [link]
tommyrot - Mar 19, 2012 8:49:33 am PDT #19684 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We won this is a test to see if Siri can understand what I say so I can speak my actual post and set of typing it.
Huh. Not too bad.
eta: "We won" should be "Hello everyone."
"and set of" should be "instead of."