Small post here. Check out this document we found for tuning databases running on ZFS/OpenSolaris VPS.
We ran unixbench 5.1.2 on one of our servers. We wanted to see how it compared to some of the competition. The Linode and EC2 benchmarks were done back in December 2009, on the latest hardware that was provided. Our OpenSolaris benchmarks were done on a system we bought back in March 2009.
Our main network provider is Internap, on the 10th floor in the Market Post Tower (San Jose) from CoreSite. We've recently started gathering quotes for a 2nd network provider. We came across Peer1. The negotiations fell through for one main reason:
Our OpenSolaris VPS service is a niche market. Majority of the market is based on Linux and Xen (or other virtualization). Entic.net runs OpenSolaris whole root zones, nothing else. Here are some of the reasons why you might want to consider an OpenSolaris VPS from Entic.net and why WE are offering this service.
Today, we've had a fairly large DNS outage. As some of you might be aware of, we host our DNS over at EveryDNS.com. It was free (well, we donated, and have supported it's cause through advertising on their site). It has served fairly well for the last several years, with only a few occasional DoS attacks.

