Maybe you can take a look to this specific services Rackspace: Managed Private Clouds Amazon: High-CPU Instances and Cluster Compute Instances (10 Gigabit Ethernet) About co-locations, we use Primus here in ottawa but also Netelligent in montreal because is less expensive. On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Spencer Cheng <scheng [ at ] aotera [ dot ] org> wrote: > > On Oct 1, 2010, at 14:26, Jorge Luis Diaz Flores wrote: > >> Did you consider other options, like rackspace cloud servers or amazon EC2? > > Not yet. We tried a VM but the computation power delivered was inconsistent due to whatever other VMs on the same machine needs at that moment. Since our needs are computationally intensive, that sucks. > > Would the cloud be able to deliver consistent CPU cycles? > > Regards, > Spencer > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >