AppFog's service extends across different infrastructure providers
Dropping into the IaaS world for a minute, is this as common as it seems me to be?
Personally, I run servers over number of cloud providers, and then have a few VPSs around too, plus some servers at home, and lots of people I know are the same.
Is this a common thing people do?
I've been thinking about doing a dashboard type app to display/manage servers across providers.
What tools are people using at the moment for this kind of thing?
(I'm actually running a very short survey on this at the moment. I'd love it if people would do it - happy to share the results here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LDNZFG3)
It may be a common thing individual developers that play with everything do. I doubt it's common for businesses to deploy production apps across multiple clouds. Unfortunately I don't think that survey will be able to answer that either way.
I've been running that survey for a little while, with a non-HN audience. More than 50% use more than one provider, and people managing more than 10 servers (who I presume are doing it for a business) don't seem any less likely.
(Thanks for all the answers BTW. I especially liked the OrionVM vs Ninefold comparison someone did in a comment - I'm from Australia, and for various reasons are reasonably familiar with the offering available. Alex from OrionVM is on HN, too)
Dropping into the IaaS world for a minute, is this as common as it seems me to be?
Personally, I run servers over number of cloud providers, and then have a few VPSs around too, plus some servers at home, and lots of people I know are the same.
Is this a common thing people do?
I've been thinking about doing a dashboard type app to display/manage servers across providers.
What tools are people using at the moment for this kind of thing?
(I'm actually running a very short survey on this at the moment. I'd love it if people would do it - happy to share the results here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LDNZFG3)