New cloud installation- some advice please

[shlaptop]

Hi there

I've been using TSPlus since around 2009 and its been amazing and liberating.

However I need a big upgrade in computing power.

The applications I want to publish are 32bit windows and they use mysql 5.5 databases.
There will be around 20 users.

I don't want physical hardware any more after many disasters.

So I am looking for a cloud based solution but it is very confusing- amazon, azure etc.

Basically I want to run a win7 ultimate or similar machine in the cloud with the latest version of TS Plus.

Can anyone with experience recommend any solutions please.

Many thanks in advance.

Simon

[hansen]

I'm using Vultr.com (because they had a data centre in Miami) with up to 80 users on W2012R2, but they allow you to install whatever ISO image.
If I was hosting in Europe, I would likely be using OVH.com
By the way, update MySQL to 5.7 to gain a lot of speed - I would recommend replacing it with MariaDB.org 10.1

[shlaptop]

thanks for the tip Hansen. I looked at OVH and that's the way I will go.

I have clients in New Zealand, Hong Kong and Europe. This has been a bit of a headache so also needs to be a consideration. New Zealand users get worse performance for sure.

Thanks once again for the information.