On 07/06/2010 01:12 PM, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> 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?
>
Multilink PPP and some other kernel only networking facilities. I worked with Scott on
setting up ML-PPP using rackspace and it became a huge hassle.
- Shane
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