[SAC] [Urgent][Vote] Proposal for new OSGeo site hosting

[Regina Obe]

Misspoke a bit not important but Atlantic.net offerings are Windows 2008-Windows 2016, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Fedora  (no Redhat EL).  
With data centers in USA East, EU West, Canada East, USA West, USA Central.

Speaking of hosting for temporary hosting I didn't look at the pricing of server specs we were considering for hosting and what is offered in that cost.


Just for comparison
For postgis.net which is hosted on Atlantic -- it's a 4GB Debian box, 100GB SSD, 2 vCPU, 5 TB Transfer included per month at $40/month (6 cents / hour)  + backup charge of  $2  (so $42/month for 30 days worth of backup)


-----Original Message-----
From: Regina Obe [mailto:lr at pcorp.us] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 5:14 PM
To: 'System Administration Committee Discussion/OSGeo' <sac at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: RE: [SAC] [Urgent][Vote] Proposal for new OSGeo site hosting


> Could others also give their list of virtualization experience and preferences ?

> --strk;

I'm pretty novice with Virtualization stuff but excited to become more familiar with them.

 I've used numerous cloud hosting providers Virtualization offerings - Amazon EC, Droplet, Atlantic.net, GoGrid 

Of the above I like Atlantic.net the most just because they are fairly priced, provide tons of bandwidth, price per minute, have lots of OS offerings (Windows 2008-Window 2016, FreeBSD, various versions of Ubuntu, CentOS, Redhat EL) And they offer continuous backups for a small charge with a retention of 30 days.  So it's nice because you can screw up a VM badly and just restore the whole server from previous day.

I've used Virtual Box (all on Windows to play around with various Linux flavors and host old Windows VMs)

Just getting into Docker but still scared of the thing.

No familiarity with Vagrant, KVM or Jails.

Thanks,
Regina