Sapphiron
Honorary Master
Hi All
I am currently looking for a cloud hosting provider. one of the main issues I have with most of the cloud hosting providers is the lack of flexibility in their offerings. For example, they cant give me a mix of SSD and HDD storage in the same VM. Sometimes not even in 2 different VM's
The provider has to be local, as the latency of international solutions is just too bad.
Here is a summary of our requirements
We distribute 2 cloud based applications. Our company handles the Sales, distribution, implementation and support for clients. The development companies are separate companies, but they are looking to us to handle cloud infrastructure on their behalf.
The first application uses a Microsoft ASP.net stack on IIS with a MS SQL back end. We expect to have about 40 to 80 client instances by the end of next year. Ideally we require pure SSD storage for this application. Ideally we like a High-availability cluster between Cape Town and Johannesburg. i.e. 2 web servers and 2 database servers with data replication for rapid recovery
The second application is a customised application stack with a MySQL database backend running on a ubuntu 14.04 VM. We currently have about 80-100 VM's that we would potentially migrate in a phased manner. Each instance would require about 2GB to 16GB of RAM and 50 to 500GB of Storage, with a 1:5 ratio of SSD vs HDD storage.
For both solutions we would require an offsite backup solution, with a recover to remote location option. We need both automated and ad-hoc backups.
In terms of Server maintenance, would like to do as little as possible. Ideally, we only want to take care of our applications and our clients. The less we need to build and maintain the better.
I am currently looking for a cloud hosting provider. one of the main issues I have with most of the cloud hosting providers is the lack of flexibility in their offerings. For example, they cant give me a mix of SSD and HDD storage in the same VM. Sometimes not even in 2 different VM's
The provider has to be local, as the latency of international solutions is just too bad.
Here is a summary of our requirements
We distribute 2 cloud based applications. Our company handles the Sales, distribution, implementation and support for clients. The development companies are separate companies, but they are looking to us to handle cloud infrastructure on their behalf.
The first application uses a Microsoft ASP.net stack on IIS with a MS SQL back end. We expect to have about 40 to 80 client instances by the end of next year. Ideally we require pure SSD storage for this application. Ideally we like a High-availability cluster between Cape Town and Johannesburg. i.e. 2 web servers and 2 database servers with data replication for rapid recovery
The second application is a customised application stack with a MySQL database backend running on a ubuntu 14.04 VM. We currently have about 80-100 VM's that we would potentially migrate in a phased manner. Each instance would require about 2GB to 16GB of RAM and 50 to 500GB of Storage, with a 1:5 ratio of SSD vs HDD storage.
For both solutions we would require an offsite backup solution, with a recover to remote location option. We need both automated and ad-hoc backups.
In terms of Server maintenance, would like to do as little as possible. Ideally, we only want to take care of our applications and our clients. The less we need to build and maintain the better.
