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Cloud Server Service or Colocation?
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:22 pm
by Hansi
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.
Cloud Server Service or Colocation?
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:13 pm
by curvefitter
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)
Cloud Server Service or Colocation?
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:15 pm
by Strange
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?
Cloud Server Service or Colocation?
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:41 pm
by Hansi
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.