Does Joyent still use some variant of Solaris? I checked their web site a few weeks ago and saw only Linux offerings but that was not the case a couple of years ago. I think OI might be more viable in the hosting market once it has a stable paravirtualization offering.
-Gary On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Jesus Cea <j...@jcea.es> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > When I check around for hosting services (I do it a lot, part of my job) > I always check availability of Solaris like OSs. I must say that the > result is sad. > > OVH is the only cheap service that provides OpenSolaris 2009.06 support. > And that OS is getting old fast. Do you know of anything else? > > I was wondering if OpenIndiana should have some kind of "advocates" to > try to make easy for hosting services to deploy OI hosted servers on par > with fedora/debian/ubuntu/whatever linux flavour they already do. > > I really think this visibility would be a huge PR win, and would help to > increase userbase a lot. > > And yes, this would be nice to sync with the OI "stable" release, with > maintenance, security fixes, etc. But I suppose that "advocating" should > be started as soon as possible. > > PS: Everytime I see an interesting hosted server with no > Solaris/OpenSolaris option, I always send an email asking for it. No > success so far :). > > - -- > Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ > j...@jcea.es - http://www.jcea.es/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ > jabber / xmpp:j...@jabber.org _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ > . _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ > "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ > "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ > "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQCVAwUBTYt6D5lgi5GaxT1NAQLpcQP+MN+yXh9XqP8RHBhYJS/jOa1UFaNLNEwT > PAakKYBnNje2hEC7gMjBeu8kIQ1fKOB7ZSr9oQNhfpfhcqnf0MmZj9uECi+hCzT5 > 2FU1Xr1fVEL9iQD82Dgb3bTpBUYn24HvckAuxBXC6LuLbArsFH+UbL8071sDsT0G > 0gcINpMP5Zo= > =LF2a > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
