> Much of what’s automated over at Slicehost (like provisioning a new instance) is handled manually at Prgmr.
(Which is also true for Linode). That might potentially be a big difference - I found it very quick to bring up new Linodes or Slices, and it's nice to know that that's a quick and easy possibility if you start generating more traffic.
Also... Calexico? Seems an odd place to be running a hosting business. It appears their actual servers are in San Jose... so where did he get Calexico from?
you have a good point about provisioning. my automation needs a lot of work, and that's a big weakness for me right now. I'm working on it, but I'm not anywhere near done. If you are built in to 'the cloud' and provision more nodes in the day than at night, yeah, my competitors are probably better for you. But if you leave your server on all the time, then I think I do offer some significant value.
I am much smaller than linode or slicehost... It's two SysAdmins, with some support from others. I have been around for a while, though. I've been selling VPSs with xen since 2005.
our old location is in he.net Fremont, our new location is in svitx in san jose. I'm looking at a rack in market post tower, but I'm told they've had power problems lately, while svtix has been pretty solid.
It is inaccurate. The servers are located at the svtix data center [1] in San Jose, CA [2]. That seems like a perfectly sensible place to operate a business to me.
I am planning on spreading even more. I'd like a rack in the UK or eastern europe. I do plan on getting rid of some of my current locations once I move the customers, though. but it would be nice to offer some low-latency options to our friends on the other side of the globe.
My next rack will probably be around here, though. Some place that I can get a cheap dark-fiber connection to from svtix, or maybe even within svtix, but I'd like to offer my customers the option of buying VPSs in different locations.
