Failover Solutions
However resilient the cloud is even with the new version of the SANs it would be really good to have an effective instant failover solution. Such as using Floating IPs where in the case of using two boxes a master and a slave. The master uses the IP address if it fails the slave assumes the IP address till the problem can be resolved. One of the companies I am associated with does this and its a really effective solution.
Load Balancing – Geographic and Hardware
I have been writing this post over the course of the week and I saw a tweet about this feature, they are actively looking for beta testers for load balancing solutions. I have applied and if I get in I will do some posts about the new service.
You can find updates on this services here.
Ability to Download Imaged Backups
At the moment you can make up to four full back ups of your VPS daily, weekly, month and a custom. It has been discussed before on the VPS.net forum but it would be very useful to be able to download these backups to keep them for archiving purposes or just as another safety measure.
My Future with VPS.net
Currently I am planning on expanding to add some additional servers. Mainly adding ones for running databases separately. Also I want to add in some servers for failover which will be possible when the rest of the new DNS changes come live.
At one of the companies I am associated with we are planning to start the migration of two racks of servers currently based in London to a visualized solution with VPS.net.
Overall
Overall as you may have guessed by now my opinion of VPS.net is very good in general. They provide an extremely good and growing service with flexible pricing thrown in to the mix.
I give them a solid 9.9 out of 10 for a rating. I wanted to say 10 out 10 can’t be any better but the recent auto banning of ~250 clients just pushed it down a bit.
What I would say really is if you are looking for an effective VPS solution no matter what you scale VPS.net can cater for you and I highly recommend them. If you have any specific questions please feel free to leave a comment, email me or just check out VPS.net forum. If you do decide to go with them please use my affiliate link.
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