On 2015-10-09 09:04, Martín Ferco wrote:
Hi misc,
I'm looking for alternatives to host our OpenBSD web frontends
off-site. Up
until now we've been using AWS for contingecy, but as you may well
know,
they only support Linux and Windows instances. We already have a couple
of
OpenBSD frontends on-site, and getting all our frontends to be OpenBSD
would be ideal (instead of using Linux as contingency in AWS).
So I'm trying to find similar solutions to AWS, but with OpenBSD
capabilities. So far the only I've found is rootbsd. I've looked at
arpnetworks but they don't seem to offer private cloud hosting from
what
I've seen.
Another importat thing for us is to have a private network that we can
connect to our main site and AWS using a VPN. rootbsd does seem to
offer
this as well.
Ideally, I'd like something that runs an ESXi Hypervisor, which is what
we'be been using on-site with good results. rootbsd seems to offer a
mix of
Xen and KVM, but I don't have experience with those. KVM seems to work
fine
with OpenBSD from what I've read though.
Do you know or can recommend other private cloud providers? rootbsd
does
seem to offer every thing we need, but I'm a bit concerned about them
being, probably, a small sized company. I know they won't be AWS, but
it
would be reassuring if someone commented on them, especially if they
have
experience running a private cloud with them. I started to look at
VMware
vcloud air, but haven't heard from him yet, and was starting to take a
look
at virtustream -- they seem to offer ESXi hypervisors as well as VMware
vloud air.
Thanks!
I've been using the VPS provider Vultr.com (https://www.vultr.com/) for
a few months now, and have no complaints.
They're KVM-based, and have datacenters in the US, Europe, Japan, and
Australia. They allow you to install from a custom ISO, so OpenBSD
works well.
Regards,
Mike
