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

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi All:

An interesting aside: Just the other day, an owner of a company, invited me to coffee and thanked me for introducing his company to Linux. Even though I only updated a third of the equipment and not even the server, I had exposed him and his employees to this new environment. After my initial install, the employees embraced the OS, upgraded all their computers to Linux and built a new server. According to the owner, they have full-time automated backups, a fail-over server and a number of staff members that can support the system. (he is even sending some to school at the local college to learn more about their chosen environment.) He said the new systems saved him a fortune, he has had no viruses or malware and everything just works...stable as a rock.

Only companies that have more than one office or need external data access really need Cloud services. OTOH, unless a company is "all-in", with the network maintenance, security and the staff and owner are at least moderately computer literate, migration to the Cloud might be their only salvation.    

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Salakhetdinov Shamil" <mcp2004 at mail.ru>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 7:13:55 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] If you're looking for an MS Windows VPS cloud solution this one is good. Tested.

 Hi Gustav --

OK, I understand. I'm not arguing but have a look at

http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/enterprise/

http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/range-2013/2013-SP-64.xml


Thank you.

-- Shamil

Thursday, March 19, 2015 12:15 PM UTC from Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk>:
>Hi Shamil
>
>I believe the pricing from AWA and MS reflects the expected TCO for domestic alternatives suitable for enterprises. It is not cheap to run a setup of servers with fail-over and automated backup and redundant 1 Gb/sec lines.
>
>/gustav
>
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>Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Salakhetdinov Shamil
>Sendt: 19. marts 2015 12:20
>Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] If you're looking for an MS Windows VPS cloud solution this one is good. Tested.
>
> Hi Gustav --
>
>I'm also surprised for such a high margin between AWS/Microsoft and ovh.ie hosting costs for comparable VPS hosting configurations.
>Are ovh.ie currently dumping or capitalistic economy laws don't work for them?
>Or they use MS Windows Server 2008 Standard and so they don't need to pay very high royalty for MS?
>
>You evaluate AWS/MS costs for the sample configuration running 24x7x365 would be about €150 / month.
>This looks very high for me for a "piece of hardware and MS Windows license" renting.
>
>Would €150 - €14.99 = €135.01 be the costs for MS Windows 2012 license renting?
>
>Who are " capitalistic sharks" here AWS, MS or both? :)
>
>Thank you.
>
>-- Shamil 
>
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