We are using Continuent's m/cluster. Costs a little bit (still loads cheaper than Oracle) but so far delivers the goods with little setup or maintenance.
It is for a web application so read performance is where it's at. It distributes the writes across all the nodes, so write performance actually takes a slight hit, but read performance is load balanced.
We are running three dual processor nodes and the performance is fantastic. It's shared nothing, so all data is on disk on all three machines. Supposedly we can add up to 12 more nodes (just buy the licenses) to dramatically increase our read performance.
We looked at all the different open source clustering solutions and they were still a little too "roll your own" for our production environment.
I got Starband (and lost DSL) after moving 7 miles out of town into the woods (in this part of Vermont I'm lucky I have power:-) )
Starband is coming out with the same router based service (the 480 Pro model) for their "telecommuter pacakge" Currently it's only available for small businesses at $139+/month. They don't have pricing yet for telecommuter, but I expect monthly they will be in the $79-99 range.
I have the standard home user package. I bought my equipment so it's only $49/month. I currently get around 60 Kbps/450 Kbps up/down. For most use it's adequate (especially web/mail).
Starband doesn't support but allows the use of a windows box as a gateway (I bought WinProxy for Starband specifically for this).
I would have much preferred setting up an IPCop box, or just using a linksys router, but their software that runs the modem only works on Windows (supposedly).
You aren't supposed to be able to use a VPN, but in a pinch I have used our Cisco PIX VPN with decent (but slow) results. Connections do get dropped pretty regularly. The telecommuter version is supposed to support VPN more robustly, especially non-IPSEC variants.
Depending on the monthly upcharge I may upgrade once telecommuter is available.
The conclusion:
If you don't have any other choice and need more speed than dialup, it's a pretty decent solution, especially if you mostly deal with stateless protocols.
Well I just checked them out and I'm not really sure how FULL their linux support is. Take a look through their system requirements and you will see that to run any significant components (other than the basic accounting package) you need windows, both on the server and the client.
All of their web front ends also require IIS.
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I'm sorry, I thought it was March 1st, not April 1st.
We are using Continuent's m/cluster. Costs a little bit (still loads cheaper than Oracle) but so far delivers the goods with little setup or maintenance. It is for a web application so read performance is where it's at. It distributes the writes across all the nodes, so write performance actually takes a slight hit, but read performance is load balanced. We are running three dual processor nodes and the performance is fantastic. It's shared nothing, so all data is on disk on all three machines. Supposedly we can add up to 12 more nodes (just buy the licenses) to dramatically increase our read performance. We looked at all the different open source clustering solutions and they were still a little too "roll your own" for our production environment.
I got Starband (and lost DSL) after moving 7 miles out of town into the woods (in this part of Vermont I'm lucky I have power :-) )
Starband is coming out with the same router based service (the 480 Pro model) for their "telecommuter pacakge" Currently it's only available for small businesses at $139+/month. They don't have pricing yet for telecommuter, but I expect monthly they will be in the $79-99 range.
I have the standard home user package. I bought my equipment so it's only $49/month. I currently get around 60 Kbps/450 Kbps up/down. For most use it's adequate (especially web/mail).
Starband doesn't support but allows the use of a windows box as a gateway (I bought WinProxy for Starband specifically for this).
I would have much preferred setting up an IPCop box, or just using a linksys router, but their software that runs the modem only works on Windows (supposedly).
You aren't supposed to be able to use a VPN, but in a pinch I have used our Cisco PIX VPN with decent (but slow) results. Connections do get dropped pretty regularly. The telecommuter version is supposed to support VPN more robustly, especially non-IPSEC variants.
Depending on the monthly upcharge I may upgrade once telecommuter is available.
The conclusion:
If you don't have any other choice and need more speed than dialup, it's a pretty decent solution, especially if you mostly deal with stateless protocols.
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Well I just checked them out and I'm not really sure how FULL their linux support is. Take a look through their system requirements and you will see that to run any significant components (other than the basic accounting package) you need windows, both on the server and the client. All of their web front ends also require IIS.
But postfix on debian running amavis doesn't seem to have any problems throwing them away for us...