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Happy to use Rackspace or another dedicated server provider... the trick is that we don't want to be responsible for, say, security patches to the kernel. So r
by kgrin 16y ago
Happy to use Rackspace or another dedicated server provider... the trick is that we don't want to be responsible for, say, security patches to the kernel.
So really the question is: is there a company that'll manage the damn server(s) for us so that we get to deal with a nice, clean abstraction similar to shared hosting?
Basically I want a HIPAA-compliant Heroku (though in this case not for Ruby).
- icey 16y agoIt's not cheap, but Rackspace has people you can pay to do this sort of thing for you.
- patrickgzill 16y agoThere are plenty of companies that will do this for you, probably from about $250 per month; what I would recommend is a reasonably powerful dedicated machine on which you install your own VPS solution. Give one large VPS to your production app, and create other VPSes for testing or development purposes. The reason you want to use a VPS on top of your own dedicated hardware is to gain the benefits of VPS control, including easy archiving of the entire system, snapshots, easy moves to new hardware even if the hardware is different, etc.
- bradleyland 16y agoThe company we use, Rimuhosting, has sysadmin services available at $40/hr, which is pretty reasonable. Their dedi-server plans are reasonable as well.