[DUG-TO] DUG-TO Digest, Vol 52, Issue 11

Mon Feb 22 16:17:36 EST 2010

I use Rimuhosting as well and have three VPS's at their Dallas facility.
Their track record has been virtually perfect in my experience (in contrast
with some other services I have used).

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Joe Murray <joe.murray at jmaconsulting.biz>wrote:

> I've been pleased with RimuHosting's VPS's out of Dallas. They have good
> support and uptime. My only worry is they charge me too little--I'm worried
> they'll go broke only charging $40/hour for extra support beyond the amazing
> free stuff they do. I have a semi-dedicated plan (1 dedicated CPU with
> burstable up to 7 more) with a bunch of low volume sites, and another client
> on a different vps.
>
>  An iWeb colo is working well for one client but their support can be slow
> and expensive.
>
> I've had troubles with CanadaWebHosting uptime in the past, and with
> pleasant but not always technically competent support.
>
> I'm looking at changing to a model where clients get their own VPS directly
> from somewhere like linode or rimu in order to not be responsible for uptime
> and support for things lower down on the stack.
>
> I'm still trying to figure out the best model for outsourcing monitoring
> and response to soft alerts regarding load etc so that my clients get great
> service even when I'm offline every weekend.
>
> I know provisioning and installing is not hosting, but here is some info if
> it does come up tonight. I'm working with DharmaTech on adapting and
> extending their semi-automated provisioning system that rolls out a
> consistent LAMP image, sets up a pretty good generic Drupal profile (about
> 80 modules) and a generic CiviCRM configuration. They're finding some
> difficulties with their Selenium component of this, since it is slow and
> occasionally times out.
>
> I've looked at using Aegir (again, not hosting, I know, but ease of
> automated upgrading of multiple sites can be relevant to hosting), but
> haven't played with it recently.
>
> HTH. Would love it if some notes were made of the discussion and posted.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joe Murray, PhD
> President, JMA Consulting
> joe.murray at jmaconsulting.biz
> skype JosephPMurray twitter JoeMurray
> 416.466.1281
>
>
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>>   1. Re: Meeting next week! (Andre Molnar)
>>   2. Meeting tonight! (James Walker)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:56:44 -0500
>> From: Andre Molnar <andre at becircle.com>
>> Subject: Re: [DUG-TO] Meeting next week!
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>> If we don't cover that during the meeting I'd be glad to carry on a
>> discussion over a beer afterward.
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>> andre
>> On 2/20/2010 4:45 PM, Design Guru wrote:
>> > Didn't we discuss hosting last time?
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>> > Lets talk large picture guys - forget this stuff we can all google and
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>> > Chris Luckhardt wrote:
>> >> I like the idea of a hosting discussion as well.
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>> >> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Iegor Martseniuk <gor at me.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Drupal hosting?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On 2010-02-18, at 2:44 PM, James Walker wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>> Hey crew,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I've got meeting space booked for next Monday night - 6:30pm at 215
>> >>>> Spadina (whooo that snuck up quickly!).
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I know there were some suggestions about potential topics, but I've
>> >>>> forgotten them all. Anyone have some ideas? I'd like to put up the
>> >>>> announcements before the weekend.
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>> >>>> See ya next week!
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:22:13 -0500
>> From: James Walker <walkah at walkah.net>
>> Subject: [DUG-TO] Meeting tonight!
>> To: Drupal Users Group Toronto <dug-to at lists.openject.com>
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>> Hey folks,
>>
>> Reminder - meeting tonight ... check the (better late than never)
>> "official" post:
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>> http://groups.drupal.org/node/51948
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>> See y'all soon :-)
>> --
>> James Walker :: http://walkah.net/
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