Anyone ever set one of these up (meaning actually running/owning the hardware)

Interested in creating an employee developement environment at work, interfacing with APIs managed by IT, and I am looking for some good info on what the best hardware is for this, and how to set it up in a simple way where there is low administration involved.

Also, want to launch new user VPS with php,perl,mysql,java,rails Ready without the users having to know how to set them up (phpMyAdmin ready for the mysql).

Basically, I need to put together a proposal with prices and submit a business case for the project. Something I have NO experience with.

[Edited on April 26, 2008 at 9:34 AM. Reason : .]

4/26/2008 9:27:51 AM

It definitely depends on the size of the project, number of machines, reliability needed and how ofter users need to have setups. You can look at going with fifthwave services or custom programming. You can look at both hardware and software solutions to do provisioning. I know I have production boxes running 4 VPS's each that aren't super beefy hardware, but their load isn't high.

4/26/2008 3:47:12 PM

anyone else have some advice to offer ?

I think initially we would start out with just 2 servers, and maybe 10 users.

Are you able to group the server capabilities together and so if you have like 2 servers with 4Gigs of RAM, you could allocate 1 user to be able to take a full 6Gigs of Ram for his Virtual server?



[Edited on April 29, 2008 at 11:11 AM. Reason : .]

4/29/2008 11:08:54 AM