[dba-Tech] If you're looking for an MS Windows VPS cloud solution this one is good. Tested.

[Salakhetdinov Shamil]

 Hi Jim --

I don't know how ovh.ie stack works. I'd be interested to know but I doubt I will ever have free  time to spend on this investigation. I'm accepting all that technologies more as infrastructure than anything else.

You don't need to have your own MS Windows license to use this ovh.ie hosting MS Windows VPSs - you rent MS Windows licenses paying your hosting subscription.

I and my customers use VPS servers running anywhere in this small world - the main consideration is the value you buy for your money where the value is first of all reliability/availability (24x7x365), ease of remote management/responsiveness, and money are limited. Flexible REST API to control hosting solutions is also becoming one of the main features/values nowadays.

Thank you.

-- Shamil


Tuesday, March 17, 2015 10:58 PM -06:00 from Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca>:
>Hi Shamil:
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>I am still not clear on how the stack works. Can I assume a Hyper-V server on top of Linux, with VMware running as separate instances? I thought it might be a Docker or CoreOS type system (KVM) spawned droplet? I was wondering how the licensing is handled as both VMware and Windows have various licensing fees?  Do you as the client, have to provide your own Windows installation and licensing? 
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>Aside: It should be noted that the company VMware is being sued by the Linux Foundation for being in contravention of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL) contract, that states improvements to software originally under the GPL must be made open source as well. In addition, a company can charge for software support services but can not charge for the licensed open source software. (We shall see how that plays out in the courts.)
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>The network seems really strong and world wide. I have been looking for security references but have found none...would that be the responsibility of the clients'?  Its backbone is all fibre-optic and its speeds reflect this...another big plus. Is there an advantage to having your hosting server farm (Cloud) running in Canada as opposed to running somewhere in Europe? Are your clients in North America? 
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>Jim
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Salakhetdinov Shamil" < mcp2004 at mail.ru >
>To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" < dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com >
>Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 3:44:17 PM
>Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] If you're looking for an MS Windows VPS cloud solution this one is good. Tested.
>
> Hi Jim --
>
>I'm note sure what visualization technology OVH uses, probably VMWare.
>I have used several MS Windows Server 2008 Standard VMs running on OVH (  http://www.ovh.ie ) cloud.
>They can be accessed via MS Windows Remote Desktop -   http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/connect-using-remote-desktop-connection#connect-using-remote-desktop-connection=windows-7
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>With broadband Internet connection this ovh.ie cloud VM's Remote Desktop connection works/responds almost as speedy as a usual local MS Windows desktop.
>As far as I see OVH.IE VMs I'm accessing are running in Canada and I'm located in St.Petersburg, Russia.
>
>Here are some stats on ovh.ie / ovh.com -  http://www.ovh.ie/aboutus/ovh-in-figures.xml
>
>Thank you.
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