Will having dev and test as in-house servers run the risk of having a live server that is not ~100% identical? Keeping all environments virtual seems to be a sure fire (not to mention expensive) way to make sure that all environments are as close to identical as possible. Is this overkill? On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Bryan O'Neal < Bryan.ONeal@theonealandassociates.com> wrote: > If your really good you can work magic at $5 per instance per month. > But that requires some actual planning. But after that it does make > things easy to expand. Personally I would go for horizontal scaling > options from commodity providers. Maybe mix in some spare office > equipment for dev and test and you would be off to the races. > Ease of expansion and contraction combined with low cost is what you > gain from commodity commuting. Cloud is just a word. Don't get caught > up making things more web 2.0 and cloud-ish. Aim for solid horizontal > sailing at a low cost that will still provide solid HA. > > On 4/21/11, Ted Gould wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 01:38 +0000, Ariel Gold wrote: > >> Private Cloud? Commodity hosting provider? > >> > >> So you're saying Amazon and Linode are public clouds, and recommending > >> he setup a private cloud for less than $100/mo? That means he's paying > >> and managing his own hardware and setting up an automated > >> virtualization system? And the $100/month would be for colocation and > >> bandwidth? > > > > Why, yes, yes I am :-) > > > > You can set up a private cloud with two machines and a few hours of work > > by installing UEC on them. > > > > http://www.ubuntu.com/business/server/cloud > > > > I'm sure other vendors have similar solutions, but that's the one I know > > (I work for Canonical). It's really pretty easy to do. > > > > I think that as we enter the "cloud era" business will be measured on > > their success of managing the balance between private and public clouds. > > Public clouds provide scalability but private clouds provide more > > predictability. And I think that predictability is key for development > > and QA. Of course, I'm one guy on a mailing list :-) > > > > So back to your numbers, a couple of decent servers for $1K each with a > > 2-3 year lifetime is less than $100/mo. Of course YMMV. > > > > --Ted > > > > > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Vimal Shah, VP of Engineering Sokikom Office: (480) 788-1849 Mobile: (480) 752-9269 Email: vimals@sokikom.com Web: www.sokikom.com Follow us: twitter.com/sokikom Like us: facebook.com/sokikom