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		arca_vorago on July 8, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding Slightly offtopic, but I am curious if anyone has any insights into the legal side of hosting profit seeking services on top of VPS's in general. Is the boilerplate contract(s)/eula/tos good enough generally or do you seek to actually make changes to a custom one? What about hosting websites vs reselling access for some other purpose (eg. similar to game hosting services that allow full customer control of the instance?) It seems to me like there is a lot of room for a tool that can spin up an instance over multiple VPS providers, because sometimes one will have a colo close to where you want and sometimes another will. Anyone aware of comprehensive location based benchmarking of all the VPS's?

muraiki on July 8, 2015 [–]

There are some libraries you can use to abstract away differences between VPS providers:

https://jclouds.apache.org/

https://libcloud.apache.org/

https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/gophercloud/

http://www.openstack4j.com/

For playing with JVM stuff I found openstack4j easier to use from Scala and Clojure than jclouds.

I didn't downvote you, but I figure someone thought you were too off topic.

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