Originally posted by: Superwormy
I had a VPS with SolarVPS, and I was anything but impressed. I had several bouts with downtime:
- Multiple occurrences of the VPS just totally bombing out, strange stack errors and out of memory errors and other garbage related to Virtuozzo
- At one point they forgot to renew their Virtuozzo license so everything just stopped working, it took a few hours to get resolved
- A few network outages
I ended up just buying a cheap used server from ebay and hosting it at a local data center for $125/month. It's been infinitely more reliable and easier to manage.
If your interested, PM me and I can probably hook you up with a managed server or colo server for a pretty good price.
I have to disagree. Virtuozzo isn't the best virtualization package. If you were to try vmware on a competently hosted infrastructure like something i mentioned or even better like the hp systems the other guy talked about, you might realize why I disagree.
First and foremost, from an end user management perspective, once you are using your vm, you can't tell you aren't on a physical machine (short of seeing "vmware network adapter").
What happens when your hard drive in your physical server fails?
How often do you do backups?
How much is backed up? (entire harddrive, or just select data)
If your server's power supply were to go up in smoke and take the server with it, how soon could you recover?
What happens if you apply a patch and you reboot, and your server locks up?
With a physical server, if your hard drive fails and you don't have it in raid, or something like that, you are screwed. Even if you have a current backup, you still need to reinstall your OS, reconfigure, then migrate your backups to the current system, reconfigure, test, then deploy.
With a physical server, if you want to take a snapshot of the ENTIRE system, you need to ghost your hard drive (requires downtime) or use something like Acronis which is resource intensive. This isn't something you can do all the time and not expect performance to suffer dramatically.
With a physical server, if your physical system fails (power supply melts everything) but your hard drive is good, you can't usually just throw it in another box (unless its the exact same) and expect it to boot up and run flawlessly.
With a physical server, if it fails to boot due to a faulty patch, you might need to do a repair, or reinstall.
Any one of these things could have your server down for 24 hours.
With virtualization, management, backup, recovery, etc. can all be streamlined into 5-10 minute recovery in any one of those situations. And it's cheaper.
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