CloudatCost OS Offerings
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As a lot of you are likely checking out CloudatCost now that they made that offer in the other thread this morning, I thought that it would be handy to show what their OS options were since it is not readily apparent when looking at the site.
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The big choices for most people will, of course, be CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 14.04. But it is worth pointing out that there is a Minecraft option!!
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I went with the Debian 7.1 option. I know its a few versions behind but it is working fairly well. I was hoping they would have an OpenSUSE option. I've been playing with that a bit lately and really like it.
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I would love to see OpenSuse and FreeBSD options too. Obviously Windows, CentOS and Ubuntu are the big three. But OpenSuse and FreeBSD would really round things out. That would be a nearly complete, enterprise class lineup for the types of instances that these are.
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Hey Everybody!
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Out of curiosity how does CloudatCost provision their VMs? Are they just using templates to do the majority of it? Or is something like Chef or Puppet working behind the scenes? Would be interesting to hear some of the how.
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I would expect images. Something like Chef would still require images / templates to happen first and would be very slow. And would require an agent that stays on the instance.
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I want to try this so bad!
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@thanksaj then buy it.
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After seeing that Scott bought 6 of these...
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For those interested, unlike most of the big cloud providers, these are running on VMware rather than on Xen (like Rackspace, Amazon and Softlayer) or Azure (which is related to HyperV but is not quite.)
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Here you can see how to tell from Linux...
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And for those interested, unlike many cloud providers, swap is enabled by default so this won't catch you off guard.
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But the default swappiness value is pretty high. I would not retain this. Default is set to 30, I would drop that to 5 for most scenarios.
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To change the swappiness to something a bit healthier for a virtual machine, just go into /etc/sysctl.conf and add the line...
vm.swappiness = 5And then to apply this run...
sysctl -p -
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Something else I found while perusing their site.
http://cloudatcost.com/privatecloud/
Seems like a good DR option if you can get a bigger chunk of storage. If I were running VMWare it would be a consideration.
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@thanksaj said:
@Dashrender said:
After seeing that Scott bought 6 of these...
Not exactly but no comment...
OK I don't need to comment on this, but I just can't let it go - and apparently neither can you. AJ - your comment brings no value to this discussion. I'm sure you're right, Scott probably didn't personally have to pay for the 6 servers he indicated that he just stood up on this service, NTG probably did. At the same time, I'm guessing that Scott is probably a part owner of NTG. Assuming that's true, then in reality he did pay for these since it would be lowering the profits of his company to try something new.
In any regards, the constant need to post for posting sake is grating. I probably start 5-10 posts like yours a day, but 99% of the time I realize that it has no value and I just delete it.
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@Dashrender said:
OK I don't need to comment on this, but I just can't let it go - and apparently neither can you. AJ - your comment brings no value to this discussion.
Thanks. I was being nice.
