On 01/06/2014 03:07 PM, Alper Kanat wrote: > Hey Kyle, > > Yes, I'm aware of DigitalOcean. Since many years, I used to have my own > server running Arch on Hetzner and now on DigitalOcean. I used to host my > ex-company's servers on Hetzner which were again Arch boxes. I personally > think that Arch has the best package manager in Linux world. > > I now work for a different company and we recently decided to move our > servers from Rackspace to AWS (and we did). The thing is neither of those > providers officially support Arch. (Rackspace doesn't even support Ubuntu > btw -- at least on dedicated machines) So this is really frustrating. I > know that there are some efforts (AWS supported repo's, specially compiled > kernels etc..) to make Arch available on AWS but they didn't last. > Compiling & configuring everything to make the environment possible is not > an option due to time related concerns. > > I do my best to spread the word btw. Hopefully Arch will be the next big > thing in Linux world some day. :) > > --- > Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Kyle <kyle@xxxxxx> wrote: > >> According to Alper Kanat: >> # I wish Arch was supported officially on things like AWS and other server >> # infrastructures. It's clearly my favourite distro for many years. But >> it's >> # pretty heartbreaking to see that its support is only community driven. >> >> This is still true on the most wellknown infrastructures such as AWS. >> However, Arch is officially supported on DigitalOcean[1], which has had >> the honor of being the fastest growing server provider of the past year. >> They officially provide Arch images for both 32-bit and 64-bit >> architectures, available on a per hour or monthly basis, depending on >> which is the lower price, similar to other so-called cloud hosting >> platforms. As far as I know, it's not the only provider to support Arch, >> but it is probably one of very few, and they seem to have the best >> service and specs for the price. Hope this helps. >> >> [1]: https://digitalocean.com/ >> ~Kyle >> http://kyle.tk/ >> -- >> "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" >> Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie" >> There is arch on ec2 that has been active for a long time by uplinklabs.net and he is an Amazon web services employee, official no. But he has been doing a solid effort for a long time.
