Re: Hosted servers with good DB disk performance? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Hosted servers with good DB disk performance?
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Msg-id 937d27e10905261658w70400c2fo5753ab70aa715af7@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Hosted servers with good DB disk performance?  (Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>)
Responses Re: Hosted servers with good DB disk performance?
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On 5/26/09, Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> wrote:
> I keep falling into situations where it would be nice to host a server
> somewhere else.  Virtual host solutions and the mysterious cloud are no
> good for the ones I run into though, as disk performance is important for
> all the applications I have to deal with.
>
> What I'd love to have is a way to rent a fairly serious piece of dedicated
> hardware, ideally with multiple (at least 4) hard drives in a RAID
> configuration and a battery-backed write cache.  The cache is negotiable.
> Linux would be preferred, FreeBSD or Solaris would also work; not Windows
> though (see "good DB performance").
>
> Is anyone aware of a company that offers such a thing?

www.contegix.com offer just about the best support I've come across
and are familiar with Postgres. They offer RHEL (and windows) managed
servers on a variety of boxes. They're not a budget outfit though, but
that's reflected in the service.

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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK:   http://www.enterprisedb.com

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