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I always say that there got to be an ec2-like solution but with real hardware. Provisioning physical machines at the same convenience level as ec2 would be awe
by halayli 14y ago
I always say that there got to be an ec2-like solution but with real hardware.
Provisioning physical machines at the same convenience level as ec2 would be awesome.
I ended up doing what Jeff did. Bought my own server and hosted it at HE for $75/month. It's xeon 5650 with 48GB Ram + 1TB disk for $2k. Assuming the machine will last 3 years, it's a $131/month. That's way cheaper than the closest that softlayer offers (https://www.softlayer.com/Sales/orderServer/41/2087/ https://www.softlayer.com/Sales/orderServer/41/2087/)
Most of the times, EC2 is really about convenience and not cost.
- BryantD 14y agoDell's Crowbar project: https://github.com/dellcloudedge/crowbar https://github.com/dellcloudedge/crowbar Ubuntu Orchestra: https://launchpad.net/orchestra https://launchpad.net/orchestra Or build your own around cobbler & puppet/chef, but you're sort of reinventing the wheel at that point. Still, sometimes that's fun.
- donavanm 14y agoAlso razor from emc/puppet. IMO a large scale cobbler config takes a bunch of work to get right. the provisioning and host management space is just starting to catch on to APIs and SOA. You're going to spend lots of time rolling your own apis, libs, services, and integration.