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I don't know about the providers you list, but Linode has something called StackScripts, which gives you the possibility to easily build a new machine with all

I don't know about the providers you list, but Linode has something called StackScripts, which gives you the possibility to easily build a new machine with all the software etc you want installed. They've got ready StackScripts for a lot of the common setups. I'm not sure why I'd pay another service for this. What would the added value be?

theDoug 16y ago
Ditto'd regarding Linode, with some notes on why we'd hesitate: While we as an enterprise love moving things to Linode, or just generally "out," I don't know if many in your planned market would be okay with someone else setting up their systems. If you're going for bigger group (which will mean larger deploys with far larger payments), make sure you're bonded, can prove security, that you're not running virtualization on top of our systems, etc etc etc. Your primary benefit as I see it is currently convenience, but trust is just as valuable.
- uxp 16y ago
  > I don't know if many in your planned market would be okay with someone else setting up their systems. This is what I'd be concerned about. I imagine there is a very small market in between the types of server users that have no idea what a kernel is and that it is configurable and the types of users in the 'enterprise' that either already have these automation scripts built themselves, or have strict enough security practices that prevents them from going outside their department for this.
europa 16y ago
I think , the value addition will be customization and time saving. As you suggested the StackScripts can build/install common things, what if you want something else ie. a different version of software etc. Thanks for the feedback. Edit: Grammar
- ZeroMinx 16y ago
  So in effect, this is hiring a Linux sysadmin consultant for a short/fixed term contract (?) That's cool. A lot of devs is not very good at sys admin stuff. I've actually had my puppet config and other sysadmin set up by a contractor.

theDoug 16y ago

Ditto'd regarding Linode, with some notes on why we'd hesitate: While we as an enterprise love moving things to Linode, or just generally "out," I don't know if many in your planned market would be okay with someone else setting up their systems. If you're going for bigger group (which will mean larger deploys with far larger payments), make sure you're bonded, can prove security, that you're not running virtualization on top of our systems, etc etc etc. Your primary benefit as I see it is currently convenience, but trust is just as valuable.

uxp 16y ago
> I don't know if many in your planned market would be okay with someone else setting up their systems. This is what I'd be concerned about. I imagine there is a very small market in between the types of server users that have no idea what a kernel is and that it is configurable and the types of users in the 'enterprise' that either already have these automation scripts built themselves, or have strict enough security practices that prevents them from going outside their department for this.

europa 16y ago

I think , the value addition will be customization and time saving. As you suggested the StackScripts can build/install common things, what if you want something else ie. a different version of software etc. Thanks for the feedback. Edit: Grammar

ZeroMinx 16y ago
So in effect, this is hiring a Linux sysadmin consultant for a short/fixed term contract (?) That's cool. A lot of devs is not very good at sys admin stuff. I've actually had my puppet config and other sysadmin set up by a contractor.