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Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by obayesshelton »

stadeschuldt wrote: post #21
brianwawok wrote: post #6

Digital Ocean - I only want to build off base Linux VM, I do not want to be locked into S3 + SQS + ... - Price is right for young startups - Speed is nice

DO is really nice. I use a little droplet myself and for the given price of 5-10 USD/month it is a great value. Once you want something more I wonder if there are better options. Take there 320 USD/month plan. You get 32GB memory, 12 CoreProcessor, 320GB SSD disk and 7TB transfer. If I take a fixed price server at Hetzner I get 128 GB memory, 12 CoreProcessors, 2x240 GB SSD disk and 50TB transfer. Even the smaller ma…

That will always be the case, with AWS if you sign a contract with them it brings the price down compared to on-demand. If your using an on-demand service you will always pay a premium

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by deet »

AWS, because it's what I know to be productive with from previous work. In the early stages of my current business I cannot afford to take the time to learn anything else.

With AWS I know the two biggest risks to its use are vendor lock-in and cost. Vendor lock-in is easy to mitigate early on through wise tech choices, and cost is something to mitigate later at scale when it matters more. And it preserves the option to use those additional, propriety services if at some point it is deemed worth the lock-in risk.

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by woohoo7676 »

Using Azure currently:

- Good PaaS offerings and pretty easy to setup

- Bizspark ($150 free of services per month per account (and yo u can create up to 5 accounts) for 3 years)

- Decent speed (Azure SQL used to be a dog, but has gotten a bit better with the V12 updates)

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by obayesshelton »

cannikin wrote: post #29
brianwawok wrote: post #6

Digital Ocean - I only want to build off base Linux VM, I do not want to be locked into S3 + SQS + ... - Price is right for young startups - Speed is nice

I want to love Digital Ocean but is there any talk about providing load balancers? It seems like as soon as you want to scale beyond one server you're stuck rolling your own with something like HA Proxy, but you've still got a single point of failure. I guess you have that with a hardware load balancer as well, but at least those things are specifically built to be available all of the time, versus just a piece of so…

Yeah I totally agree with you on that one, I don't really want to setup another server to have a load balancer. I would rather use a service like how AWS do it.

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by stadeschuldt »

3pt14159 wrote: post #28
brianwawok wrote: post #6

Digital Ocean - I only want to build off base Linux VM, I do not want to be locked into S3 + SQS + ... - Price is right for young startups - Speed is nice

I just wish there was a single VM that wasn't SSD backed. I write web crawlers sometimes and I usually only have to parse the HTML / JS once into JSON or SQL, but I like to keep the data backed up just in case I need to re-parse it later, or to see the changes between crawls. It's completely impossible for me to even fit it on their $640 / month box. But I love Digital Ocean for everything else.

Have you looked into the Kimsufi boxes? Sometimes they are available for 5 EUR/month. They come with a Atom cpu and 500 GB of storage.

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by icebraining »

3pt14159 wrote: post #28
brianwawok wrote: post #6

Digital Ocean - I only want to build off base Linux VM, I do not want to be locked into S3 + SQS + ... - Price is right for young startups - Speed is nice

I just wish there was a single VM that wasn't SSD backed. I write web crawlers sometimes and I usually only have to parse the HTML / JS once into JSON or SQL, but I like to keep the data backed up just in case I need to re-parse it later, or to see the changes between crawls. It's completely impossible for me to even fit it on their $640 / month box. But I love Digital Ocean for everything else.

That's why I like TransIP. Cheap SSD-backed VM + large network drive (up to 400TB).

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by at-fates-hands »

Avalaxy wrote: post #18

Azure, awesome PaaS services, very easy to set up, good documentation, good pricing, very good performance and I really like the fact that they are working really really hard on Azure. Big new stuff is being released every month.

Combining Azure with Cloudflare has really been great for my dozen or so clients I manage.

It ups Azure's performance and adds another layer of excellent security. The Pro plan at $20/month is well worth it.

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by shortstuffsushi »

3pt14159 wrote: post #28
brianwawok wrote: post #6

Digital Ocean - I only want to build off base Linux VM, I do not want to be locked into S3 + SQS + ... - Price is right for young startups - Speed is nice

I just wish there was a single VM that wasn't SSD backed. I write web crawlers sometimes and I usually only have to parse the HTML / JS once into JSON or SQL, but I like to keep the data backed up just in case I need to re-parse it later, or to see the changes between crawls. It's completely impossible for me to even fit it on their $640 / month box. But I love Digital Ocean for everything else.

Couldn't you potentially push that aspect elsewhere, into a data storage solution like S3 or something (not sure of the cost efficiency, not a huge cloud guy myself). Then you'd just be utilizing the DO server for processing. It would have the added benefit of allowing you to scale your crawling horizontally if you wanted, as all your servers could have access to the same set of data.

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by 4ad »

Joyent.

+ DTrace available

+ Great predictable performance

+ Solaris

+ no VM

+ fast non-capped network

- client tools are written in node.js (but you can write your own if you really care)

Doesn't matter to me, but might to some people:

- Relatively few datacenters

- Solaris (they do have KVM too, so you can run whatever, but then you lose the many benefits of zones)

Also don't matter to me, but might to some people:

+ completely open source stack, so you could install the same environment in your private datacenter

+ it does not use openstack

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