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Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by ars »

anderiv wrote: post #8

$ whois datamantle.com | grep "Name Server" Name Server: NS1.DREAMHOST.COM Name Server: NS2.DREAMHOST.COM Name Server: NS3.DREAMHOST.COM Hrm...using dreamhost for their nameservers. Interesting choice. $ whois $(dig +short datamantle.com) | grep OrgName OrgName: Google Inc. Not dogfooding their own service? I think I'll pass.

> Not dogfooding their own service? I think I'll pass.

The opposite. If they went down no one would be able to view a status page.

It's actually best practice NOT to host your site on your own network.

Just like you should not use an email address @ the same domain you are registering. If your domain had a problem they could not email you at that domain.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by Shakahs »

kej wrote: post #30
tholford wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not the op of that comment, but in my experience, DH is something to be avoided :) it's been a few years, but still have unpleasant memories of cryptic errors, stability issues, and a clunky control panel.

Also that time they messed up their auto-billing and stole $7 million from their customers.

"Stole" is very misleading. Yes, their billing system had a bug and charged a bunch of customers in error. But DH handled it very well, were very transparent about what happened, refunded all the money (of course), and even went so far as to reimburse people that incurred overdraft fees.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by diegorbaquero »

anon4711 wrote: post #11

Quick rundown of alternatives and up/downsides (e.g. everybody has Debian so that's not noteworthy) of which I've personally used the first four: - DigitalOcean has FreeBSD has Fedora - Vultr has FreeBSD has Fedora - Linode has Fedora cheaper than the others relatively fast CPUs e.g. Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz UI not as nice as the others' - Exoscale has OpenBSD - CloudScale only does daily (rather tha…

Map Comparison for DO, Vultr and Linode: http://imgur.com/mesaHoN

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by cardamomo »

datamantle wrote: post #18
kristianc wrote: post #17

Why is minimalism a benefit here? Other than that it doesn't look too different from DigitalOcean, which comes with great support and the confidence of a lot of people using it.

No benefit, we just wanted a straight-to-the-point VPS. An alternative for those whom want a VPS closer-to-home (Waterloo)

I really appreciate the lack of BS in this comment. Thank you for refreshing simplicity and transparency.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by tmikaeld »

Normal_gaussian wrote: post #48
ar0 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scaleway (scaleway.com) offers similar pricing to OVH but with more storage. They only have a datacenter in France, though, so if you use the OVH data center in Québec it will not be of much use. I personally haven't tried them, but they are part of Iliad, the large French telecom / Internet business, so I would expect them to be reliable and to stick around.

Wow those look like an amazing deal! Storage really is my bottleneck on a couple of projects... I'm in the UK so France is perfect. Thanks

Be warned, they do NOT use ECC memory.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by joshmn »

datamantle wrote: post #18
kristianc wrote: post #17

Why is minimalism a benefit here? Other than that it doesn't look too different from DigitalOcean, which comes with great support and the confidence of a lot of people using it.

No benefit, we just wanted a straight-to-the-point VPS. An alternative for those whom want a VPS closer-to-home (Waterloo)

VPS != cloud.

I'm sure you know this though.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by markwoodhall »

ovao wrote: post #57

Just a current curiosity: how did you choose a minimum password length of 8 characters? Was there any insight into the decision or did it 'feel right'?

I've seen many articles that suggest a minimum password length of 8 characters. For example, the latest update published on Naked Security - https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/18/nists-new-passwo...
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