[BlueOnyx:16830] Re: Soliciting Suggestions

[Greg Kuhnert]

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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