Some of you may have read my experiences with another company who provide "on demand" Virtual Private Servers and well, it didn’t go very well. But I do like this idea of having custom resources and Pay as you go (PAYG) type service.
I do quite a bit of testing and while most of the testing is on a local server on my own LAN, I would like the ability to "spin up" a custom server which is online with a public IP address etc. I do think VPS type services are the future and also the ability to customize the resources. For example one project I would like to try is very CPU intensive for certain periods, but it is not critical and can be done when the cluster is less busy. To get the CPU I need currently, I would require a dedicated server, but this would be very expensive and overkill as the CPU would be idle for most of the time! Another feature I would like is the ability to clone a VPS and create a library of images. For example, if I wanted to "sell" a custom/self managed server. I could create an image and have a fully functioning server in a few minutes, ready to sell on to my customer. Currently, I would have to install from scratch which is very time consuming for me and current not worth the effort.
Would RSP be interested in looking into this or have any plans for increasing VPS options available to us?
I do quite a bit of testing and while most of the testing is on a local server on my own LAN, I would like the ability to "spin up" a custom server which is online with a public IP address etc. I do think VPS type services are the future and also the ability to customize the resources. For example one project I would like to try is very CPU intensive for certain periods, but it is not critical and can be done when the cluster is less busy. To get the CPU I need currently, I would require a dedicated server, but this would be very expensive and overkill as the CPU would be idle for most of the time! Another feature I would like is the ability to clone a VPS and create a library of images. For example, if I wanted to "sell" a custom/self managed server. I could create an image and have a fully functioning server in a few minutes, ready to sell on to my customer. Currently, I would have to install from scratch which is very time consuming for me and current not worth the effort.
Would RSP be interested in looking into this or have any plans for increasing VPS options available to us?
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