Isohost founder Edwin Peer on SA Virtual Private Server environment

Why is there some much hype surrounding this company? I just don't get it...
 
Ipwn 4 said:
Why is there some much hype surrounding this company? I just don't get it...
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I could pose that question the other way around. Why aren't people on these forums more excited about having more choice?

Our offering is excellent value when compared to what else is available in the local market. Especially for higher end serious hosting with lots of CPU, RAM and disk. Maybe the MyBB editors see that?

We're also doing some really innovative stuff like SPICE based KVM access with a simple SSH based remote management interface. Or, the fact that you can install your VM from scratch, so that you know exactly how everything is set up, which has gained us a couple of more security conscious customers.

I really don't understand all the negativity. Another player in the market is good for consumers. It can only serve to drive down prices and get us even closer to international competitiveness.
 
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Fudzy said:
What pipe do they use?
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Hetzner is currently our upstream provider, so effectively that means MTN (their upstream).

Our LIR registration finally came through on Friday though:

espeer@binky ~ $ whois -h whois.afrinic.net ITISNET-1
% This is the AfriNIC Whois server.

% Note: this output has been filtered.

% Information related to '41.78.128.0 - 41.78.131.255'

inetnum: 41.78.128.0 - 41.78.131.255
netname: ITISNET-1
descr: It Is Internet (Pty) Ltd
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So, now we have our own IP address space and AS number. That means we'll soon be looking to peer as well as buy transit from more than one upstream provider for even better redundancy and cost. Watch out for our uncapped offering. It's coming soon! :)
 
epeer said:
Hetzner is currently our upstream provider, so effectively that means MTN (their upstream).

Our LIR registration finally came through on Friday though:



So, now we have our own IP address space and AS number. That means we'll soon be looking to peer as well as buy transit from more than one upstream provider for even better redundancy and cost. Watch out for our uncapped offering. It's coming soon! :)
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What are the speeds like? I don't see it in the table of options.

EDiT: sorry I see it says 100Mb/s, what is the average speed?
 
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Fudzy said:
What are the speeds like?
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Typical speeds are 100Mbps modulo your I/O contention ratio.

For example, on the Mercury package it means there are up to seven other VMs on the same host competing for the same 100Mbps network interface. That means worse case performance is about 12Mbps, but typical performance is much better than that, because not everybody on the same physical host will need to move data at the same time.

Customers who have larger data requirements would usually opt for a larger package, because the kinds of applications that move large data also tend to require more CPU and RAM anyway. But, those VMs are hosted on separate machines with much lower contention ratios and are thus not in the same contention pool as smaller VMs.
 
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SirMCDeats said:
epeer - Any eta on a Mac client? And can I administer a machine using only SSH?
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I believe this is now a solved problem, we still need to test it though:

http://spice-space.org/page/OSX_Client

You can do everything via SSH, however, exporting the display is slow over X11 forwarding and so it's better to run a local SPICE client when you need KVM access. Of course, once your box is up and running you typically only need KVM access if something has gone horribly wrong (in the case of a bad kernel upgrade, for example).
 
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epeer said:
I believe this is now a solved problem, we still need to test it though:

http://spice-space.org/page/OSX_Client

You can do everything via SSH, however, exporting the display is slow over X11 forwarding and so it's better to run a local SPICE client when you need KVM access.
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Awesome.

Just a question if you don't mind. Have you looked at Ovirt + the python-sdk for it? I've played with it sometime ago and it seemed like you would be able to do auto-provisioning quite easily with it.
 
SirMCDeats said:
Have you looked at Ovirt + the python-sdk for it? I've played with it sometime ago and it seemed like you would be able to do auto-provisioning quite easily with it.
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Yes, there are several strategies. Scripting the provisioning via libvirt is not the problem though. At our current scale, we still need to order new hardware every so often, which is the part that currently requires manual intervention.
 
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epeer said:
I could pose that question the other way around. Why aren't people on these forums more excited about having more choice?

Our offering is excellent value when compared to what else is available in the local market. Especially for higher end serious hosting with lots of CPU, RAM and disk. Maybe the MyBB editors see that?

We're also doing some really innovative stuff like SPICE based KVM access with a simple SSH based remote management interface. Or, the fact that you can install your VM from scratch, so that you know exactly how everything is set up, which has gained us a couple of more security conscious customers.

I really don't understand all the negativity. Another player in the market is good for consumers. It can only serve to drive down prices and get us even closer to international competitiveness.
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Many thanks for your reply, no negatively intended.
 
(Don't want to create a new thread for this, so posting here instead.)

I've been trying to get a response from Isohost, as I'd like to know a little more about their offerings. Has anyone else been having trouble getting hold of someone at the company? (Note that I haven't phoned yet... I probably should, but am concerned as to why nobody but their Zendesk system is responding...) Ticket number is 1179.
 
Did you have any luck getting hold of them? A client of mine has a server with them that went offline a while ago, haven't been able to contact them through any of their channels.
 
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