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We've recently begun to move our entire infrastructure to external providers (vps and cloud) because we felt that we couldn't guarantee a sufficiently high leve

We've recently begun to move our entire infrastructure to external providers (vps and cloud) because we felt that we couldn't guarantee a sufficiently high level of quality and had to devote too much time and money to operations. In over four months we've probably already had more downtime than in the past 5 years. Despite paying quite a lot for "redundant", clustered offerings. There was one nasty bug in the hypervisor that killed the entirety of one of our providers' vps infrastructure - for over a day. Our experience with "the cloud" was a little bit better, but we aren't entirely satisfied. I don't know, maybe we should just order services from three different providers mirror our applications ourselves as a fail-over mechanism.

dholowiski 14y ago
> maybe we should just order services from three different providers mirror our applications ourselves as a fail-over mechanism. Yes, yes a thousand times yes. And dedicated servers don't cost much more than VPS's.
patrickgzill 14y ago
Yes. I recommend having a look at either ProxMox (proxmox.com) which can simultaneously do OpenVZ and KVM; or, XCP for Xen-based stuff - see http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html
neilmiddleton 14y ago
Heroku status is currently showing production uptime as 99.97%. That's not too shabby, and definitely not as bad as you make out.
- jsprinkles 14y ago
  He implied that Heroku is not his sole provider. I'm skeptical of that figure, too, as it's probably something on the Heroku sales site (99.7% to the 30-byte health check!), or it's manually updated, in which case it's probably rounded.
cardmagic 14y ago
http://AppFog.com http://AppFog.com has ruby, python and node, multiple regions today: Ireland, Singapore and US, adding Rackspace and HP soon. All free and backed by CloudFoundry

dholowiski 14y ago

> maybe we should just order services from three different providers mirror our applications ourselves as a fail-over mechanism. Yes, yes a thousand times yes. And dedicated servers don't cost much more than VPS's.

patrickgzill 14y ago

Yes. I recommend having a look at either ProxMox (proxmox.com) which can simultaneously do OpenVZ and KVM; or, XCP for Xen-based stuff - see http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html

neilmiddleton 14y ago

Heroku status is currently showing production uptime as 99.97%. That's not too shabby, and definitely not as bad as you make out.

jsprinkles 14y ago
He implied that Heroku is not his sole provider. I'm skeptical of that figure, too, as it's probably something on the Heroku sales site (99.7% to the 30-byte health check!), or it's manually updated, in which case it's probably rounded.

cardmagic 14y ago

http://AppFog.com http://AppFog.com has ruby, python and node, multiple regions today: Ireland, Singapore and US, adding Rackspace and HP soon. All free and backed by CloudFoundry