[LUNI] VPS and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

[Scott Zionic]

Brian Sobolak wrote:
> Also, most of our regular attendees use Linode (A VPS service) and
> have been extremely happy with it.  We'll see how the switch from UML
> to Xen is for them, but the service has been very solid to date.

And on the other end of the spectrum is Tektonic
(http://www.tektonic.net/). I thought they were pretty solid at first but
now I suffer through nearly daily outages and reboots on my VPS. They use
Parallels Virtuozzo, but I don't know whether that is the problem. All I
know is that every day for a week my VPS has shown iowait percentages of
more than 25% in top and that this correlates to horrible performance in
the VM.

Thanks for the tip on Linode. I have been looking around for a VPS
alternative since my trouble with Tektonic began, but in the absence of a
recommendation I feel like I'm just as likely to wind up with another
loser. Given the pain involved in migrating my multi-gigabyte mailstore
from one VPS to another over the Internet I am not eager to do it too many
more times.

Scott