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;Rackspace (http://www.rackspace.com) | ;Rackspace (http://www.rackspace.com) | ||
* OpenStack: ''Yes'' | |||
* Scalable: ''Yes'' | |||
* UK-Based: ''Yes'' | |||
* Monthly cost for one basic server: ~£15 | |||
* Comments: friendly control panel, other services such as separate firewalls and load balancers if needs be. | |||
;FireHost (http://www.firehost.co.uk) | ;FireHost (http://www.firehost.co.uk) | ||
* OpenStack: ''Yes'' (checked via phone) | |||
* Scalable: ''Yes'' | |||
* UK-Based: ''Yes'' | |||
* Monthly cost for one basic server: ~£180+ | |||
* Comments: Control panel seems OK, they are PCI compliant which is interesting and focused on security, but it comes at a large premium | |||
;Coreix (http://www.coreix.net) | ;Coreix (http://www.coreix.net) | ||
* OpenStack: ''Yes'' | |||
* Scalable: ''Yes'' | |||
* UK-Based: ''Yes'' | |||
* Monthly cost for one basic server: ?? (indicated about the same as Rackspace on phone) | |||
* Comments: The best supplier on paper, and extremely friendly support team on phone - but their cloud product doesn't launch till January. Might be worth considering in future | |||
;Elastic Hosts (http://www.elastichosts.com) | ;Elastic Hosts (http://www.elastichosts.com) | ||
* OpenStack: ''No'', but the support team says it is in the works (~Q2 2013) | |||
* Scalable: ''Yes'' | |||
* UK-Based: ''Yes'' | |||
* Monthly cost for one basic server: ~£15 | |||
* Comments: An interesting option; good control panel & good options, they also have two data centres in the UK which might allow for redundancy within the same provider (cheaper??). | |||
Revision as of 16:21, 19 November 2012
Outline for the new infrastructure/servers:
- Easy to migrate (OpenStack based; which is also open source so another plus!)
- Secure (multiple servers, sandboxed instances)
- Versatile ie. easy to maintain (cloud-based to allow quick migration & scaling)
- Resilient (Hardware failure tolerant)
- UK-based (to simplify compliance issues)
- Suggested infrastructure
- Confidential data; CiviCRM, Office Wiki, Ticketing, Source Control etc.
- Community; Public wikis, community services/software (Etherpad, QRPedia etc.)
- Services; email, mailing lists, etc.
- Development; for testing & pre-production deployment
- Hot Backup; of both the above & office data
Later on:
- Mirror; on different provider, mirroring essential services etc.
- Archival storage; long term cold storage for backup data
There are a couple of suppliers that would meet these requirements, I will outline them below.
Suppliers
- Rackspace (http://www.rackspace.com)
- OpenStack: Yes
- Scalable: Yes
- UK-Based: Yes
- Monthly cost for one basic server: ~£15
- Comments: friendly control panel, other services such as separate firewalls and load balancers if needs be.
- FireHost (http://www.firehost.co.uk)
- OpenStack: Yes (checked via phone)
- Scalable: Yes
- UK-Based: Yes
- Monthly cost for one basic server: ~£180+
- Comments: Control panel seems OK, they are PCI compliant which is interesting and focused on security, but it comes at a large premium
- Coreix (http://www.coreix.net)
- OpenStack: Yes
- Scalable: Yes
- UK-Based: Yes
- Monthly cost for one basic server: ?? (indicated about the same as Rackspace on phone)
- Comments: The best supplier on paper, and extremely friendly support team on phone - but their cloud product doesn't launch till January. Might be worth considering in future
- Elastic Hosts (http://www.elastichosts.com)
- OpenStack: No, but the support team says it is in the works (~Q2 2013)
- Scalable: Yes
- UK-Based: Yes
- Monthly cost for one basic server: ~£15
- Comments: An interesting option; good control panel & good options, they also have two data centres in the UK which might allow for redundancy within the same provider (cheaper??).