[wplug-internet] approval for vph

Michael H. Semcheski mhsemcheski at gmail.com
Fri Jul 6 10:20:56 EDT 2007


I'm on vacation until Sunday, so that wouldn't work for me.  I'm busy
Monday, but I'm flexible after that.

Mike

On 7/6/07, curlynoodle at gmail.com <curlynoodle at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree that Xen appears to have a more professional face than UML.  Beyond
> that, I cannot compare the two.  I will post to the general list to get some
> user feedback.
>
> Slicehost does offer the quad core hardware and provides 2gb more storage.
>
> If we do a trial, why not try both providers.  Will Slicehost give us a trial?
>
> I am free on Sun, 7/8 to begin work.
>
> Dave
>
> Michael H. Semcheski wrote:
> > So,
> >
> > The decision of the internet committee (by vote) was to go with a VPH
> > service.
> >
> > Personally, after doing some more searching, I like slicehost.com
> > better than linode.  Basically the same thing.  Very similar prices
> > and service levels.
> >
> > The one difference is that Linode use User-mode Linux, and slicehost
> > uses Xen.  Xen seems more robust to me, but I don't have any
> > experience or hard evidence to back that up.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On 7/5/07, Beth Lynn <bethlynn at wplug.org> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Now that the holiday is over, I want you all to know that the board did
> >> vote for funding for VPH service at Linode. Do we want to proceed with
> >> the
> >> 7 day trial? If so, when?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Beth Lynn Eicher
>
>
>


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