Our company has run into performance bottlenecks with our current cloud provider (we're very I/O-centric).<p>We're primarily interested in Managed Hosting, possibly with a hybrid cloud solution. We're looking at:<p><i>Softlayer<p></i>ThePlanet<p><i>LiquidWeb/Storm<p></i>SunGuard<p>Have any advice about these companies or any others that make compelling Managed Hosting partners?
If I may ask, what are your read and/or write patterns like (random, sequential, predictable, etc)? What's the typical read and/or write size like for your application? How much data are you dealing with?<p>I understand you're set on a cloud-like environment but have you considered running off a dedicated server(s) with SSD? The IO improvement is dramatic. We have several clients running SSD in production without any issues to report.<p>Regards<p>Joe
I had a dozen servers or so colocated with ThePlanet, during their outage due to <i>electrical explosion</i>.. I was not impressed with their disaster management, communication, etc.<p><a href="http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/06/01/explosion-at-the-planet-causes-major-outage/" rel="nofollow">http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/06/01/explo...</a>
i think rackspace is quite good, they seem to have good reputation and experience in datacenters and hosting. personally my experience with them has been with cloud servers and i think they're making lots of investments in this space, overall the price and ease of use for their cloud server is quite impressive. i think they use xen for server virtualization, which is a negative in my opinion, but the management interface is quite good, i had my debian lenny image running with ip in less than 5 minutes.