As far as I know, anything hosted in the US is subject to DHS search. The reasons for the search can be vague. I have used two hosted services in the past: IWeb - offices and data centre in Montreal. The services cover most of what you list below. Zazeen - offices and data centre in Toronto. Their primary systems are VM slices, although I believe you can get full machines. ... Glenn On 2010-09-02, at 9:11 AM, Brad Hudson wrote: > Hi All; > > $Client has a service that is currently running with a service provider > that has seen a lot of problems/incidents in the last few months. They > have lost faith in this provider and want to move. I was hoping someone > might have some experiences/suggestions as to providers that have used > and had success with. > > Their looking for a hybrid solution that will allow a mix of bare metal > DB servers, Virtualized web servers and managed networking/load > balancing. They currently have their own hardware and may move it to > the new provider if they can also find one that mixes the former with > co-lo facilities (I have advised them to avoid this and use their own > stuff for dev or DR). > > So in short they want: > > - Managed hosting > - Managed networking > - Load balancing for web servers > - VMs for web servers > - Physical servers for databases (VM not an option due to some product > licensing/support limitations) > - potential to also co-lo > - As many 9's uptime as possible within budget, but budget currently > under review so I have no hard number here. > - Good/responsive support that can and will actually provide RCA on issues > - Scalability for unspecified future endeavors > > I have a few ideas of where to look but any input would be welcome. > > Thanks all! > > Brad > > > -- > Brad Hudson > SA Team Lead > The Pythian Group - love your data > Desk: 613-565-8696 x202 > IM: pythianhudson > > -- > The best compliment you could give Pythian for our service is a referral. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux -- Glenn Henshaw Ottawa, Canada Email: thraxisp4 [ at ] mac [ dot ] com