[NCLUG] [Poll] VPS and web mangement hosting

[Crawford Rainwater]

----- Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com> wrote: -----
> 
> On 02/17/2012 06:43 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > I am disappointed because it would have been interesting to know how
> > much ram people desired, and how much disk they desired, bandwidth,
> 
> Unfortunately, most people don't really know the answers to many of
> these
> questions. Particularly RAM... As some of you know, we do VPS and
> dedicated hosting, so I'm somewhat familiar with this in the real
> world.
> 

Sean's is absolutely correct here in that most people look at the price tag and not "under the hood".  His examples though are LAMP oriented, which indeed could be one use of a VPS.  To go on one side or even opposite end of the resource scale (256MB to 512MB of RAM), a simple slave DNS server is also an option if someone wanted such.  Throw in another midrange possibility is a VPS email server or even a groupware (e.g., Horde) server.  Then there are the "resource hogs" (2GB+) end of the spectrum like VPS systems with Java applications as another example.  So in short, I wanted to poll keeping in mind that "one shoe does not fit all".

Again, just looking to see what LUG folks might be interested in, hence leaving a price tag out of the picture accordingly.  I am hoping folks are looking at what is "under the hood" instead. 

--- Crawford

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