On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 17:51 -0400, Greg Smith wrote: > I keep falling into situations where it would be nice to host a server > somewhere else. Virtual host solutions and the mysterious cloud are no > good for the ones I run into though, as disk performance is important for > all the applications I have to deal with. > > What I'd love to have is a way to rent a fairly serious piece of dedicated > hardware, ideally with multiple (at least 4) hard drives in a RAID > configuration and a battery-backed write cache. The cache is negotiable. > Linux would be preferred, FreeBSD or Solaris would also work; not Windows > though (see "good DB performance"). > > Is anyone aware of a company that offers such a thing? Sure, CMD will do it, so will Rack Space and a host of others. If you are willing to go with a VPS SliceHost are decent folk. CMD doesn't rent hardware you would have to provide that, Rack Space does. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdrake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
