From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Hosted servers with good DB disk performance? |
Date: | 2009-05-26 23:00:34 |
Message-ID: | 1243378834.16418.934.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org |
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On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 17:51 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> I keep falling into situations where it would be nice to host a server
> somewhere else. Virtual host solutions and the mysterious cloud are no
> good for the ones I run into though, as disk performance is important for
> all the applications I have to deal with.
>
> What I'd love to have is a way to rent a fairly serious piece of dedicated
> hardware, ideally with multiple (at least 4) hard drives in a RAID
> configuration and a battery-backed write cache. The cache is negotiable.
> Linux would be preferred, FreeBSD or Solaris would also work; not Windows
> though (see "good DB performance").
>
> Is anyone aware of a company that offers such a thing?
Sure, CMD will do it, so will Rack Space and a host of others. If you
are willing to go with a VPS SliceHost are decent folk. CMD doesn't rent
hardware you would have to provide that, Rack Space does.
Joshua D. Drake
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