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Some more questions: do you pay only for the hardware maintenance or also the software (updates, patching etc etc)? Resource-wise what you mentioned, for a small company will most of the time run without any problem on a vps with 0.5G RAM, some ssd space (that can be used for memory swap if needed) and 1 vcpu, but the critical question is, who is going to maintain the vps and respond to emergency situations. Why it was actually decided to go for the dedicated server? Resources, confidentiality or something else?Max Headroom wrote:X9200, yes it's a dedicated physical machine. It dates back quite a few years, but the specs are still ok for us.
Memory: 2G
HDD: 70G
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz, 2 cores
No databases or anything fancy. Just straight-up HTML and PHP auto-responder forms.
What do you think?
So this is ms windows I guess. Any dedicated software that you need and it runs only under windows?Max Headroom wrote:Yeah, ours is just a simpleton server, but it's good to have sole ownership over all of the hardware and software.
Question is if it's worthy enough to go cloud.
That's why even resource hungry systems are being virtualised, with HCI.Sporkin wrote:Once you virtualize, you don't go back. The practical advantages apart from the infra is that your server is now data, version able, copyable, clonable. Someone messed up your server? No problem restore yesterday's version, moving to a different provider? No problemo, just copy your server
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This will probably depend on the hypevisors and such. Also, many cheaper VPS providers while offering backups of the system image don't offer the transfer of the images. I can copy from within the system the disk image, but to copy it to a new location I often had to overwrite the existing system alive what is hardy safe.Sporkin wrote:Once you virtualize, you don't go back. The practical advantages apart from the infra is that your server is now data, version able, copyable, clonable. Someone messed up your server? No problem restore yesterday's version, moving to a different provider? No problemo, just copy your server
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True that, cross hypervisor is trickier, doable but tricky. I do not like physical cloning, the whole idea of pulling hdds out and doing block perfect cloning.x9200 wrote:This will probably depend on the hypevisors and such. Also, many cheaper VPS providers while offering backups of the system image don't offer the transfer of the images. I can copy from within the system the disk image, but to copy it to a new location I often had to overwrite the existing system alive what is hardy safe.Sporkin wrote:Once you virtualize, you don't go back. The practical advantages apart from the infra is that your server is now data, version able, copyable, clonable. Someone messed up your server? No problem restore yesterday's version, moving to a different provider? No problemo, just copy your server
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Within the same provider, yes, it's often easy, but cross-providers, not that sure.
Nb. what you mentioned is actually easier to be done with the standard physical servers, at least for the Linux distributions. The virtulization helps with redundancy (assuming professional providers) and resources but migrating a physical server is often as simple as cloning the harddrive and this is with the comfort that if something gets wrong, you have some extra means to fix the problem and not just a virtual console.
Again, it is always important to realize what is actually needed. I ran 3VPSes at this moment. 2 in Germany, one in London, and 4 physical itx/sbc mini servers: 3 in Singapore, one in Poland, plus 1 shared hosting in Singapore. Pluses and minuses.
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