Any one want to share info on the hosting setups they are using?

I was hosting internally and moved my server to Amazon ec2 with VPC. I monitor approximately 30 machines. My cost is going to be around $50 - $60 a month.

Would like to hear feedback from other Enterprise Users....

I don't currently own any Enterprise servers however I think you can host it in a VPS too and exponentially cut the costs. Not really sure if this applies to your case however you can try asking for some free trials at some various hosting companies and see the result. I consider 50$ a bit much for a restrictive instance with 30 monitored pcs.

Edited April 4, 201213 yr by Paul

I am only monitoring 30. But I can monitor up to 100 unless I increase my license....

Enterprise...

Main reason is the reliability. Uptime... Also SAS70 faciity. Another great feature is I can quickly take a snapshot of the server. Make any changes I want and instantly revert if there is an issue.

Usually there are no problems with the uptime, as for reliability and snapshots, most hosting companies also offer you backups or full VM snapshots depending on the package you choose.

But yes if it's only 50$ a month it's not that bad for all those features..

Edited April 4, 201213 yr by Paul

Yes. I was curious if there were any other users with good experiences as I am new to the cloud hosted as I have always kept my own servers in a colo facility but tired of the cost of maintaining and replacing my servers...I am finding that cloud hosted is about half the cost of just my colo (Full Rack) rental here in California.

So I am running in Amazon Cloud and my monthly cost is $30 a month for a reserved Windows box... Pretty Good price I must say!

So I am still running in Amazon.  my bill monthly is $38.  Just the electricity a month would be that if hosting on a server.......  I have had no issues and have been running for over 1 year!

Can you also share your instance specs too? It would help others link a price to a number of concurrent connections.

I am running an m1.small.  I monitor about 50 or so machines.  I prepaid for an entire year based on 365 day uptime.  Total for the month is $38.96 including taxes

 

 

Instance Family General Purpose

Instance Type  m1.small

Processor Arch 32-bit or 64-bit

vCPU 1

ECU 1

Memory (GiB) 1.7

Instance Storage (GB) 1 x 160

Network Performance low

 

 

 

Details:  https://picasaweb.google.com/marinhd/Amazon?authuser=0&feat=directlink

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