Cloud Server Service or Colocation?

Hansi · Post by **Hansi** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:22 pm

I've used this as an alternative to Amazon for stuff that needed to be always on for multiple months with high RAM and HDD reqs: http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/

Doesn't allow for burst scaling but that's not what I was after.

curvefitter · Post by **curvefitter** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:13 pm

Building from source might be complicated but if you choose ubuntu or debian there apparently are ready made binary packages that you can install with these 3 commands:

sudo apt-get install r-base

wget http://download2.rstudio.org/rstudio-server-0.96.316-i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i rstudio-server-0.96.316-i386.deb

amazon would probably be your only choice if you decided to do some huge backtests -- you could execute them in parallel over multiple instances using the doMC package... but i seem to understand this is not the case (yet)

Strange · Post by **Strange** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:15 pm

Cool! This looks like the best solution (lots of HD/RAM at the expence of traffic). I don't really need burst scaling either, this is much more of a storage+development platform.

PS. would they be ok w me being in the US and all?

Hansi · Post by **Hansi** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:41 pm

Yes, should be okay. I know some US guys doing iOS games that use them for their European originating traffic and they didn't mention any issues signing up.