[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana hosting advocating?

[Dustin Marquess]

OI's Xen domU PV (i86xpv) has been nothing but stable for me?

-Dustin

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Gary Driggs <gdriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does Joyent still use some variant of Solaris? I checked their web site a few weeks ago and saw only Linux offerings but that was not the case a couple of years ago. I think OI might be more viable in the hosting market once it has a stable paravirtualization offering.
>
> -Gary
>
> On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:
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>> When I check around for hosting services (I do it a lot, part of my job)
>> I always check availability of Solaris like OSs. I must say that the
>> result is sad.
>>
>> OVH is the only cheap service that provides OpenSolaris 2009.06 support.
>> And that OS is getting old fast. Do you know of anything else?
>>
>> I was wondering if OpenIndiana should have some kind of "advocates" to
>> try to make easy for hosting services to deploy OI hosted servers on par
>> with fedora/debian/ubuntu/whatever linux flavour they already do.
>>
>> I really think this visibility would be a huge PR win, and would help to
>> increase userbase a lot.
>>
>> And yes, this would be nice to sync with the OI "stable" release, with
>> maintenance, security fixes, etc. But I suppose that "advocating" should
>> be started as soon as possible.
>>
>> PS: Everytime I see an interesting hosted server with no
>> Solaris/OpenSolaris option, I always send an email asking for it. No
>> success so far :).
>>
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