Ask HN: Outsourced SQL Providers?

Hi everyone,

I've been asked by my boss to explore the option of outsourcing part of our data to an external SQL provider. So I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations as far as companies they’ve worked with.

Our primary concern here is uptime and we’re willing to pay a decent amount for it (e.g. a $20 shared hosting solution is not what we’re looking for)

Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Sam

P.S. One thing I forgot to say. It has to be either MS-SQL or MySQL. We don't want to use something like Amazon SimpleDB because this experiment in outsourcing might fail and we want to be able to bring that data back to a local server.