[BlueOnyx:16831] Re: Soliciting Suggestions

[Danny O'Day]

That would be great.  Once I take delivery and get things set up on the
box the way I like it hopefully I will be able to get a demo key of some
sort.

Thank you to everyone for the advice.  This list is one of the reasons I
have stayed with this group since my Raq 2..

Regards,

Danny

> Danny.
>
> Just to add my perspective - I am also an aventurine nut. I have used
> other products before settling on Aventurine … but for Linux hosting,
> its a winner. It also does have some KVM features for non linux operation,
> but I have not tried those bits yet to be honest. If you only want linux
> hosting though, Aventurine is the way to go.
>
> The one thing that I will point out is the importance of storage speed.
> One of my clients has a really busy server running a lot of VERY busy
> VPS’s on Aventurine. When he first did this, he did not have fast enough
> storage, and it was not delivering the performance he needed. After
> getting faster storage, his system now performs amazingly.
>
> But let me give you a simple suggestion. Try before you buy. If you are
> interested in doing an Aventurine trial - I’m sure we can get you a demo
> key for the product. Drop Michael or I an email off list and we’ll
> discuss.
>
> Greg.
>
>> On 9 Jan 2015, at 2:31 pm, Danny O'Day <danny at missing.com> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings Group -
>>
>> I have ordered a new server I will be taking delivery on next week which
>> I
>> am hoping to use to delete a few servers out of my rack.  I went with a
>> Lenovo TS140 i7-4770 3.4GHz 32GB with 3 3TB 7200 rpm drives.
>>
>> Currently I have one instance of Blueonyx 5208 running on one server
>> (Hosting about 5 sites), another server running mail services(Debian
>> ISPconfig for mail only), and 2 additional development servers (indexing
>> project and video services through VPN).  I'm hopeful this new box will
>> have enough horsepower to knock out 3 of these machines into one by
>> going
>> to a virtual server setup.
>>
>> I've never stepped into this realm very deeply and want to keep with
>> linux
>> as the OS on the server.
>>
>> Anybody have any suggestions on how best to proceed and advice on what
>> problems I may hit.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Danny
>>
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