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Re: Debian dedicated server (provider)?



On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:36:59PM +0000, Steffan Davies wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> I'm currently managing a small fleet of Stable and Testing systems for 
> my employer, which live at Servermatrix.
> 
> On trying to order some new machines, I learn that Debian is no longer 
> supported by them for new installs, due apparently to "incompatibilities 
> with newer hardware". They are strikingly reluctant to give any further 
> technical details, but this covers at least a dual-core Opteron with an 
> LSI53C1030 SCSI controller (I have dmesg from Red Hat on this machine if 
> anyone's interested) as well as Core 2 Duo machines.
> 
How beefy are your requirements?  Have you considered getting a Xen domU
instance somewhere?  Cheaper and performance is good.  Of course, if you
need tons of fast disk I/O and dedicated CPU, that may not be enough.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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