Hosting recommendations ... ?

Tue Jan 19 18:08:15 UTC 2021

On 1/19/21 9:33 AM, Brandon Martin wrote:
> On 1/19/21 11:44 AM, William Herrin wrote:
>> Cloud = you get virtual servers with virtual storage, generally
>> adjustable to meet your needs. You manage the operating systems and
>> storage within the virtual environment. You DO NOT manage the host
>> operating systems or hypervisors.
>
> It's worth pointing out that nested virtualization is a thing these 
> days, and some providers might even support it!  That means you could 
> buy one large instance and sub-divide it yourself into multiple VMs if 
> you want to.
>
> In practice, unless you need that flexibility to dynamically spin the 
> VMs up and down with various specs AND don't want to or cannot use a 
> provider's API for that, I'm not sure why you'd want to if you didn't 
> have to for some crazy reason.

Except for the problem that you pay a premium for larger vm's. you can't 
compete with t instances on aws, for starters.

Mike