guess that helps you finding something that fits way easier :-) i'll not be of too much help there as i've never run windows on any of my test, development or production machines and can therefor not judge any offerings. cheers lenz On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Hui wrote:

Thanks for reply, Lenz. What we need is vmware virtual machines running windows server 2003 in NZ. Our software will be running in the VM and accessible via a Web management console. Initially 2GB RAM, 20GB disk space and 1/2 CPU (xeon) will suffice. Monthly billing with unlimited national traffic is the way we like.

Cheers Hui

-----Original Message----- From: lenz [mailto:norbu09(a)googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 12:45 PM To: Hui Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] virtual server

can you be more specific? what do you mean with "virtual server for testing"

OS? location? (US, europe or NZ) billing periode? (hourly or monthly) API driven (do you automate your tests down to creating the test instances?)

there are way too many flavors of vserver - it might be that a macbook with parallels or virtualbox is enough but may also be that you want 100 EC2 instances or 50 slicehost slices or anything in between ...

cheers lenz

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Hui wrote:

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Hi all,

We currently look at getting virtual servers for software testing/demo. Can anyone give me a pointer on which service providers offer this and how to get more info? I guess NZNOG is the best place to ask for this kind of expert advices. Thanks in advance.

Cheers

Hui

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