[Brug-talk] RoR hosting provider

[Frank Louwers]

On 25 Oct 2007, at 14:49, Peter De Berdt (10-forward) wrote:

>
> On 25 Oct 2007, at 13:22, Alain Ravet wrote:
>
>>> We host outside of Belgium (New Zealand provider Rimuhosting) ..
>>
>> I wonder about the network latency and its impact on features like
>> super-reactive autocompletion (à-la Google Suggest). What's your
>> experience with this (when hosting in New Zealand for Belgian users)?
>
> Their servers aren't located in NZ, but in either the US or the UK.  
> On their website, you find test servers to check on the ping  
> response time etc. All I can say is that we're getting better  
> response times than several companies I know that are using the  
> mighty expensive leased lines. I can get the full 20 Mbps download  
> bandwidth my provider allows me when downloading from our  
> Rimuhosting servers, won't happen with leased lines or most Belgian  
> datacenters (that charge you a lot more for a max 10 Mb throughput).
> There are quite a few "Belgian hosting companies" that actually  
> rent their servers in a US-based datacenter anyway.

If you want to test latency or network download speed, please check  
195.47.215.1 (for ping tests) or http://www.openminds.be/10mb.bin.

Our latency to the major Belgian providers at the moment:

- Belgacom Skynet: 2.0ms
- Telenet: 2.5ms
- Scarlet: 1.4ms
- Versatel: 13.5ms
- Belnet: 2.8ms
- EDPNet: 2.6ms



I don't know who you've been talking too, but we have about 1Gbps of  
capacity and can upgrade to 10Gbps on short notice if needed, in a  
Belgian datacenter :)

Also, we are quite flattered with the positive reactions about us  
here on the list. I don't usually get involved in threads that  
involve us our our competitors, but I do want to make one or two  
corrections.

- On our "Pro Hosting" (which is actually a shared environment), it  
is possible to run 5 ruby processes. So you can run 5 apps without  
problems on them.
- Rimmuhosting and a few others that were discussed here, are  
actually virtual private servers. Don't compare these to a shared  
environment. They each have their advantage, and each has a different  
target group depending on sysadmin knowledge of the customer, type of  
application etc. As announced on the BrugTALK, we *are* going to  
launch a VPS service Real Soon Now(tm). So if you are waiting for  
such a service in Belgium, it *will* be available in a while.


Anyone wanting to discuss any of the above options, please talk to me  
in private.

Regards,

Frank Louwers
Openminds bvba
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