[Gllug] User-mode linux hosted in the US

[Rev Simon Rumble]

This one time, at band camp, James Goldwater wrote:
> Can anyone recommed a hosting company offering UML, which, crucially, 
> must have its servers in the physical United States, as well as be a US 
> company?  There seem to be a million and one!

I've been very happy with Linode www.linode.com.  Excellent support in
the forum and seems to be the most professionally integrated setup out
there.

> I'm not too fussed about price competitiveness, but the usual 
> service/reliability/uptime stuff is the key thing.  Has anyone had any 
> particularly good/bad experiences with US companies?

Well UML is always going to be less good on a shared machine, but I've
had no real problems with Linode.  One planned reboot, one weird UML
kernel bug causing a reboot.

On the service side, they're amazingly responsive.  The key admin guy
(Caker) seems to be online 24/7 and responds in moments to most
requests.

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Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
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