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Yes, I'm aware of the qcow2 uses, I do use it at home for my Windows Home Server KVM running in Debian on my gazillion TB nas :P But I was addressing @William and his security issue, thought he might know something I had not heard about, and I doubt EDIS is overselling disk as their reason for using it, but you never know.
I have no knowledge of VPS, so that's why I asked. So, they are like folders?
@William are you using sparse files? Mount them from FreeBSD host/cd, then dump(8), then restore(8). I can provide the actual commands. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html for details.
LVM is actual partitions so the user is assigned all of the space upfront.
Francisco
thank you
You really don't need to understand VPS for this one, just LVM, and this is the greatest resource I've found about LVM http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
But as @Francisco said, but maybe a little clearer to give you a better understanding, most hosts create a Physical Volume, and then individual Logical Volumes for each VPS, which allocate your space and it is there for you whether you use it or not.
Colo@ is awesome. Ryan and gang know their stuff. You've made a wise choice.
We used to have an old project of mine with wiresix when they were still growing (well before colo@ started). He ran a good show and minus us pissing off GNAX it was a very solid service.
Francisco
This is not about if they are compatible, but about the speed.
(A 8x1TB SATA2 Constellation (7,2k) RAID10 does around 180MB/s - 8x450GB SAS2 (10k) R10 does around 450MB/s - 8x1TB SAS2 Constellation (7,2k) does around 250MB/s)
Sure, what would you like, DELLs which randomly fail, Supermicro with their crappy IPMI which doesnt work or Desktop PCs smashed into 2U cases?
There is a reason why HP is the largest Server vendor in the world.
Again: we do not use qcow(2), also they fully allocate the space as well at creation (not sure of it is just zeroes, but the file is full size)
@William - Thomas Krenn servers can be the alternative
If this is all true then you have no reason to use it over an LVM
LVM is your friend and well worth it if you are able to adjust your platform to support it. I know you aren't the coder/developer, but forward it as a potential feature.
(A 8x1TB SATA2 Constellation (7,2k) RAID10 does around 180MB/s - 8x450GB SAS2 (10k) R10 does around 450MB/s - 8x1TB SAS2 Constellation (7,2k) does around 250MB/s)
We use 8 x 1.5TB drives and get 500M/sec sequential writes without issues and around write 1600 iops with the onboard cache. What RAID cards are you using or is that a little more than you can say?
Francisco
HP onboard, i think its called P410
(Do note that my speeds are without any cache)
No, they are rebranded Supermicro/Tyan anyway
Please stop fighting over hardware or system solutions here; as interesting as it is, please open a separate thread for that.
@William Please take a position on the dump(8) and restore(8) option.
@DimeCadmium Some vendors may provide phony SLAs. Some do not. OVH, Hetzner, buyvm do not. I see SLAs as accountability commitments: "If I fail, I take responsibility for it."
@Francisco your plans and business approach look good. Any plans for Chicago or NY/Scranton or that north-eastern area next months?
Should work fine inside the container, will not work on the hostnode.
Atlanta is as close as we're going to get. NY is too rich for our blood and Chicago didn't have enough choices. Scranton is pretty much burstnet and I don't really want to host there.
Francisco
@michelem
We will have IPv6 in our New York location in the next 2 weeks. Email me directly at [email protected] and Ill give you a deal you cant refuse
Fran talk to me, and Ill change your mind on that. Rethink your ATL location and come to NY :-D
I dunno, the guys are pretty set on coloat's pricing and setup. If you think 'crossing can do something similar drop me a PM
Fran
We have some available spots in ashburn va. Our new solution hasn't been launched publicly but we are taking private orders. PM me if you are interested.
Also we have a SLA.
I think I asked you guys a few months ago if you were planning on opening an east coast location and the answer was no at that time. So glad that you've changed your mind!
I'm not sure what specific locations you've looked at, but... Natcoweb, Choopa, FortressITX and Interserver might be able to offer you some good pricing in NY.
I had enough people bugging me for an east coast and the offer was good enough to allow us to grow with it
I've checked with all of those providers and none of them have reasonable addons for bandwidth. At $1300 for a rack i'd expect more than 100mbit for transit.
Francisco
If you want some in ashburn ... contact me lol.
Who's the provider over there? uberbandwidth?
Fran
thats Asheville NC. Ashburn VA is awesome ;0
level 3, sawis, nlayer, cogent, tinet ... and more in the bgp mix. You can see when we launch our ashburn service in a week.
I meant savvis.