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

Mon Feb 22 18:15:17 EST 2010

Ditto Rimu.
2 VPS's. Stellar service. Thumbs up on uptime.

Very DIY though. Not a lot of tutorials. No shortage of info elsewhere  
on the web though.

Andrew Mallis
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On Feb 22, 2010, at 1:17 PM, Andrew Fountain <andrew at drup.org> wrote:

> 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
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>   1. Re: Meeting next week! (Andre Molnar)
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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?
> >
> > 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>  
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> >>
> >>> 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,
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> Reminder - meeting tonight ... check the (better late than never)
> "official" post:
>
> http://groups.drupal.org/node/51948
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> See y'all soon :-)
> --
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