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VPS/Dedi provider for mission critical services?
dodheimsgard
Member
in General
Hey guys
I'm wondering what providers you use for mission-critical stuff?
Comments
AWS
Amazon lightsail
Kimsufi.
SummerHost / AWS
The end is nigh.
No? Kimsufi is solid, for the price, especially the flash sales they did.
The HDD may break every 2-3 years but thats like 40 minutes downtime, then its replaced.
You pull your backups and you be fine.
Kimsufi can be stable indeed. No downtime on one of my nodes there for quiet some time now.
My main systems are with SYS and Hetzner. Backups on Kimsufi.
Mzungu ofc
Novogara and WSI, of course!
Home server in basement.
Ramnode and Digital Ocean
Fbi
You wouldn't be asking here for mission-critical stuff!
Softlayer and OVH
define:mission critical stuff
@quick knows- best.
My $35 Quickpacket.net server has been reliable. I keep lots of backups so worst case scenario if one of my vpses/dedis goes down then it'll be just a few hours max (which is fine for me) to get everything back up and running.
Linode is good
I am specialized on offshore bulletproof hosters only.
Buy two LET-boxes, setup some fancy replication and failover mechanism between them and you should be able to achieve enough nines for most LET-critical stuff.
Or in other words: Never put your eggs into one basket.
I agree on Softlayer, but OVH, really ?! With the amount of avoidable failures they had with cooling, single fibre to DC, etc ? You can’t really put OVH in the same shelve as Softlayer, c’mon. Be serious.
one has hardware accelerated xml gateways, one has a polish-french guy that plays guitar, c'mon you know which company you want to do business with
A slice in Luxembourg (BuyVM). Working great so far.
Basements flood.
Build a backup datacenter in your top floor or ask some friendly neighbour for a colocation and put some fiber under your garden to his house.
So do DCs and nuclear power plant backup generator rooms occasionally.
Bicycle generator
Imagine the data centre engineer calling to the electricity supplier, begging for the power to return :-)
Newtork is fast my man
Good enough for the Secretary of State? Good enough for me.