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We use Softlayer too for the same reasons. Have been with them for over 10 years now - since they were called The Planet. Just had one hardware failure during
by pitchups 13y ago
We use Softlayer too for the same reasons. Have been with them for over 10 years now - since they were called The Planet. Just had one hardware failure during the entire time. They also now offer Cloud computing instances - which can be deployed either hourly or monthly. And you can mix and match your Cloud and dedicated servers - giving you all the flexibility to scale that you get with AWS / EC2.
- x0x0 13y agoYou should probably not use softlayer cloud; a very bright ops guy at scribd had a horrific time doing so. http://kovyrin.net/2011/05/02/cloudlayer-bad-story/ http://kovyrin.net/2011/05/02/cloudlayer-bad-story/
- sluukkonen 13y agoIt's also 2 years old, so a lot might've changed.
- porker 13y agoI could write the same about Rackspace Cloud - in 2009/early 2010. I suspect (but cannot confirm) this isn't relevant any longer either.
- pitchups 13y agoOur own experience with their Cloud offering is more recent and a bit different. We have been using cloud computing instances running Haproxy as load balancers to route millions of requests to multiple physical web servers for over a year now. Can't generalize - but we have had no problems so far.