Re: Rackspace

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, bz-gmortbeezifies.com wrote:

> I had a linnode for a while, it's pretty nice but their
hard drive space 
> sucks.

True, but unless your web app involves file uploads you dont
need much 
space. Even for a virt domain mail server (which is what Im
building), 8Gb 
is more then enough since Im not storing email long term on
the server 
itself anyway.

Also the ability to manage "hardware" upgrades
from a web-based control 
panel is pretty neat. Im thinking the $80/m biggest linode
package 
compares quite favorably to what Im running right now down
at PiloSoft 
except Im spared the stress over buying hardware, building
it and running 
it. I might eventually upgrade to the bigger packages if all
goes well 
with my trial.

> Heck, just about all hard drive capacity is awful when
you 
> compare it to setting up your own system(mind you,
there is a GOOD 
> reason for it since they tend to go with high quality
hard drives and 
> such.  Wheras, if all I need is cheap and I'm willing
to take the 
> possible downtime, roll your own hardware has it's
advantages)

Ive ran my own servers for years and even though I spent a
lot of money on 
really good, server-grade quality hardware Ive gotten tired
of maintenance 
and worry.



-- 
Aj.

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On 10/9/07, Ajai Khattri <ajaibitblit.net> wrote:
> Ive ran my own servers for years and even though I
spent a lot of money on
> really good, server-grade quality hardware Ive gotten
tired of maintenance
> and worry.

I have a dual-proc P-II sitting in a box under my desk that
cost me
roughly $10,000 back when it first came out. It originally
was a
database server for a very high-traffic website. I hang on
to it, as
even while it is completely useless to me now, I simply
cannot throw
it away.

Not anymore - I'm happy paying someone like ServerBeach.com
to walk
the hardware-treadmill while I move on to more important
stuff.

-- Mitch
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