Here is an interesting site http://internetpulse.com, you can check the general network performance between the big network providers.
Here is a quick list of the recent software releases that we think are pretty big in their area. If we missed something else, be sure to let us know.
There are a few different Solaris distributions out there produced both by Sun and the Open source community. Here is a quick run down on the differences.
Here's is what we use for running OpenDS on a Solaris based VPS server -- on our FreeLDAP.org web site. You can make some minor adjustments to it to make it run as a non-root user.
A VPS is a virtual server. You get root, you get your own dedicated server. You can run as many VPS servers as the physical system resources allow for.

