3Tera's AppLogic could be the expeditor of a lot of small and medium dreams. I read the whopping 28 pages thread about TGL, it sure got my juices running. With enough time, the grid could evolve into something close to a Matrix (and hence the thread title).
Yet it seems it wasn't stable yet (at that time). And 3Tera and TGL were talking about features yet to come. So my question is:
Is their service stable yet?
What exactly does the DoS protection layer 2-4?
in which attacks are successful.?
Anyone else seeing packet loss / high latency? I was told that Savvis and or Layer3 are having some routing issues tonight.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI currently have a rack of gear in a nice colo. At first this colo was established to provide for some of my own equipment. However, in the past year or two I have had several customers express interest - so I have started reselling some colo space to them.
Currently I have three network feeds from the provider coming into my cabinet. I am about to add a 4th feed. All of these feeds have been added so that my customers could have a dedicated connection to plug into their hardware firewalls.
Since I am growing and about to add a 4th customer, I am now trying to figure out how to simplify this, and better provide for future growth. I am thinking that the best way would be to have one "feed" from the provider. Then I would bring that one feed into a layer three switch which I could use to break the feeds out to my customers. This would also allow me to measure the bandwidth being used by each customer and bill them accordingly.
Does this sound right to you all? Also - any recommendations on a good layer-3 switch?
From the real experience, how many mbps can it process in layer3 mode with 10-20 VLANs?
View 8 Replies View Relatedi have two servers colo on the IDC,
i want to search for a Layer 2 Switch for them,
the bandwidth we use now is about 5-10Mb only.
i hope the switch is reliable,but not expensive,
i do not need a lot of feature,just reliable for the connection for my service.
i find some cheaper switch,like d-link,ProCurve,
i have a mt site and it is being moved. when the dns propogates, how will i be able to access my mt site? i have the ip address and it doesnt load anything. i want an address to give others until the new site is working.
View 0 Replies View RelatedI'm attracted to the luster and flexibility of the grid server world and have spent time with on the phone with ENKIconsulting.net (great people) and Mediatemple (salesy people).
ENKIconsulting.net is out of my price range to start and I have been hearing less than nice things about Mediatemple.
---Situation---
I am launching a site running wordpress blog, php bullentin board, customer service support suite, and amember membership script.
My goal is to have room to grow (very quickly) but start off small/cheap with no/minimal downtime or switching costs involved in migration to a dedicated.
My actual "hard numbers" are unknown... visitors, bandwidth, and page KB size, but what is known is that the marketing behind the launch could draw 1000 visitors to the within a day and up to 10,000 and want to be ready.
My budget is pretty small, and need to stay under 100 a month (during the alpha and beta of the site) but once live money will be much less of an issue.
I'm not a webmaster or server admin, and need excellent customer service from the hosting company (telephone and email) and I'm comfortable to used the fun and easy GUI of cpanel to run the show.
---With the above said---
(1) Is there a grid solution out there that is recommended?
(2) If not, what specifications CPU/RAM/HDD fit my needs
(3) Dedicated? Semi-Dedicated?
(4) Are their hosting companies that allow some degree of scale (RAM/CPU/HDD)within a shared semi dedicated environment?
(5) If not and my resource need jump, how difficult is it to provision and migrate an the entire site to a dedicated box?
Basically I am looking for a strong recommendation for hosting that has a platform that allows quick and easy scalability, excellent customer service, reasonable prices (not cheapest), and a friendly web-admin backoffice.
i am hosting 3 sites on my shared hosting plan at startlogic. I need to upgrade but i have a small budget. Gridservice is cheaper and it does not require as much server work. I don't really know anything about server work if that makes a difference.
Which option should i go for and what are the pros/cons of each.
I have 4 of these xeon servers, i want to setup a grid environment...
View 6 Replies View RelatedI recently heard of a new term i.e. Grid Hosting?
Can anybody explain what exactly it is?
I've narrowed my search to VPS and Grid service for my website. Which do think is better for a forum with 1000-1500 members. 50 online simultaneously?
Which linux distribution is best for vBulletin?Ubuntu Dapper
Centos 4.3
Gentoo 2006.1
Debian Etch
Fedora 6
Any recommendation? VPS - there are lots to choose from and Grid service - I just feel mediatemplate.net is best?
Is there a colo provider that has a free private network for use between their locations, similar to what SL has for their dedicated servers between facilities? They have 10GigE between their locations, with free unlimited usage.
We have around 40 servers now, and colo would really make sense, but we are doing multicasting stuff so we really need a backend network to support our services, as well as many locations for better delivery quality.
I'm investigating "suspects" that could be used in a server access environment. My requirements are:
*24 or 48 10/100/1000 Mbps Ports
*Atleast 2 x 1000Mbps uplinks (fiber preferred)
*SNMP-enabled for remote bandwidth polling @ ports and uplinks
*Simple Layer 3 allowing for per port rate limiting
VLAN creation support would be a plus, but not required
The switch needs to be able to handle ~1000Mbps of constant usage
I would be open to using non-Cisco switches as well.
In our company we want to start working with grid hosting, but where to start? What is the best software solution?
View 7 Replies View Relatedif anyone is/has used the new grid hosting system from MediaTemple? It seems like a breakthrough to me. Kind of like Amazon's S3 service which we are using for a new super cool 3D Internet technology vastpark.com (Shameless self promotion).
But back to MT. It's $20 p.m. and gives you 100Gb and claims to be fast, so I'm going to give it a go soon, but wanted to know if others had and what they thought. It seems to be missing a backup process. You can buy backup as extra but I think it's still up to you to script the backups and damn it, I'm lazy!
By the way, I'll want to host Joomla sites and SugarCRM sites (both are fairly greedy and I normally run them on a dedicated machine with 2 gb of ram). I reckon it could be a nice way of offering cheaper hosting to some of my clients.
I was looking at Godaddy's grid servers and it says you can have unlimited concurrent connections:
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With dedicated servers if you wanted to have 2 million concurrent users you would need hundreds of dedicated servers in a cluster, but Godaddy grid hosting can do this for $4.99/month:
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Of course currently give users unlimited compute cycles so if they start charging it could increase the price but godaddy don't charge for ram. Of course if you needed more bandwidth you can buy more.
Sure, Godaddy grid hosting doesn't allow videos on your server(embed's allowed) but you wanted to have a website that was at the top of digg and worldwide media outlets reported it, Godady grid hosting would be great for this.
So i guess if i had to choose between a dedicated server and godaddy grid hosting for a forum, i would choose grid hosting because i can have unlimited users online at the same time and not have to worry about cpu load.
how's media temple these days?
In particular the grid service.
Does their service stay up? How often is it down? I heard a lot of horror stories back in the day, and went with another provider.
Sadly, my current provider has had a string of downtime each day and I'm looking to switch.
Before I go with another provider, i want to make sure that MT's grid service is good.
And how it would compare with their dedicated virtual service.
Especially when you consider their dedicated virtual service compared to the gs with a mysql container.
I currently own a reasonably sized VPS paying around 40/$80 a month for it. I am extremely happy with the service but I have recently move from freelance to being hired by a company.
I wish to scale down my costs so looking at other options.
I hear a lot (mostly good) of things about MT and was wondering what peoples experiences are - particular with ease of use, support and uptime.
I would also like to know about how the normal shared hosting option works for people hosting some clients website and email. I currently have around 10 clients hosting with me and 100 emails. Is it easy for clients to use and i assume pop and imap are supported.
I currently run my VPS on cpanel. would it be easy to transfer everything or is it very much of a manual job?
I'm planning on launching a php-based web application within a month or two and am weighing different hosting options. I was almost certain with my plan to use two dedicated servers (one for web, one for db) but I can't help reading about all of these new grid/cloud/utility hosting solutions that promise instant scalability and deployment - which sounds like a blessing. I know there is a lot of garbage and marketing hype so I felt I should ask what the real deal is. Are these services reliable, worth using, really that easy to use, powerful, etc? I was looking at gogrid's demo videos and to instantly launch a few web servers, a db server, load balancer, etc, in 15 minutes for 30% of the cost - I can't ignore it.
So whats the deal?