[LUNI] VPS ..

[Gene Jannece]

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Gene

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Samir Faci <samir at esamir.com> wrote:

> So..
>
> easyvmx, turnkeylinux don't do what I want.  It seems like they have
> pre-packed solutions.. but they don't allow you for the mix and match
> which is essentially what I was looking for.  I can make a simple
> image that does lamp, or tomcat or whatnot.. but having the ability to
> just check a checkbox and add or remove features and generate on the
> image on the fly is what's most valuable (to me) .
>
>
> rpath seems like it could some of what I want.. but only seems to
> support Centos/rpath.  susestudio, is very much tied to SuSe.
>
> bitnami studio seems to be the most promising one.  Though the last
> time I touched amazon hosted services s3 etc.. their VMs would reset
> state on reboot.. so having something like a webpage wasn't very
> useful.  It seemed more targetted a dummy nodes for number crunching.
> Make a template.. have them connect to this host to configure
> themselves..and receive jobs... when you're done computing.. shut them
> down... or reboot, reset state..and start computing again.
>
> Things like hosted solutions and persistent content seemed .. painful.
>  This was a few years ago...
>
> Thanks for the input btw... I'm gonna see what bitnami can do.. it
> could be my ideal solution right now.
>
> --
> Samir
>
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Jared Moore <jaredmoore at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Is this what you are looking for?
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_appliance
> >
> > www.rpath.org/ui/
> > www.easyvmx.com
> > www.turnkeylinux.org
> > www.susestudio.org
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:54, Samir Faci <samir at esamir.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Is this any different from slicehost? I'm not looking for just a place
> >> to toss yet another linux server on.. the pre-packaged bundle is the
> >> main thing I was looking for, and the variety of pre-packaged bundles
> >> available.
> >>
> >
> >
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> >
> >
>
>
>
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> Samir Faci
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