On Sep 7, 2012, at 10:42 PM, Adam Del Vecchio wrote:
> 
> Could you perhaps link me to that thread if it was on this list?

This was on IRC.

> But are there providers offering OI at this cost? I understand what you mean, 
> but of course the same is true for any hosting environment or company.

Right now I'm paying about $9/month for a CentOS VPS from Interserver. I'd be 
willing to pay a small premium over that for a similarly configured Illumos 
zone (OpenIndiana or OmniOS would both be fine).  I'm on an older plan that 
they don't seem to offer anymore, but for $12/month with Interserver you get 1 
virtual core, 0.75GB RAM, 50GB disk, 6Mbps (1.8TB/month).  To be honest, I'm 
surprised there aren't more low cost Illumos-based options out there.

Entic is the only provider that I'm aware of right now selling OI VPS's but the 
cost is not within the realm of what I'd be willing to spend for a personal use 
VPS.

The opportunities seem so slim that I keep getting this idea in my head of 
buying a nicely spec'd entry level 1U server, carving out a couple of zones for 
my own use, and leasing out the rest of the surplus capacity on the box by the 
slice to recoup the costs.

-M
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