[aklug] Re: Living in the cloud...

From: Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com>
Date: Tue Jul 06 2010 - 13:12:48 AKDT

On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Scott A. Johnson elucidated thus:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 08:37, Damien Hull <damien@linuxninjas.tv>
wrote:
> > Not sure if anyone will find this interesting but I got off amazons
> > ec2 cloud service and onto gmail and RackspaceCloud.com.
> >
> > Racspace cloud servers are cheap. I'm guessing I'll spend $20 a
> > month for 1 ubuntu 10.04 server with 256mb of RAM and 10 gig of
> > storage. Works for me.
> I was using Rackspace's Cloud for a while, as I agree the price is
> much more favorably than Amazon's. The only issue I encountered is
> there was little/no support for compiling your own kernel for the
> guest OS. Other than that, very solid service.
> Scott

I'm sure there is a valid reason, but it's not coming to mind at the
moment: why would you compile a custom kernel for a VPS? All the
modules should load fine, correct?

j

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