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Re: Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

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Post by frobozz »

forcer wrote: post #9

Simple pricing. No need for a calculator. And then you quote prices in swiss franks instead of US dollars as its common in hosting industry. I don't have currency converter in my head nor I know USD->CHF rate

If you are looking at their website using a browser connected to the internet, you don't need to do currency conversions in you head and memorise the exchange rates every morning, you can just use that same browser to ask for a currency conversion from any of a number of sites, e.g.

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?#q=1%20chf%20in%20usd

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=1chf+in+usd&ia=currency

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+chf+in+usd

If they are charging in CHF, then it's in both their and their customers' interests to quote in CHF, otherwise fluctuations in currency markets and variations in the exchange rates offered by their customers' banks will invalidate those quotes.

Re: Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

#12

Post by seivan »

Is there still a market for providers that only sell bare bone private servers?

I wish more would look into cloning Heroku in terms of features and ease of deployment.

It's not just easy to create, deploy and manage but it's easy to add a slave or replace Memcached with Redis.

Re: Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

#13

Post by fla »

piquadrat wrote: post #2

As a Swiss citizen myself, I am not convinced that hosting in Switzerland is any better privacy-wise than e.g. in Germany. New laws like BÜPF and NDG seem to get us closer to where the EU is in terms of what the government is allowed to access, and what providers are forced to log. This talk is a good intro on what's going on in Switzerland right now https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7205-netzpolitik_in_der_schweiz#...

Internationally wise, it's not. We have a long history of doing whatever other big countries ask us to do. Especially when the request comes from the United States. (I'm Swiss as well)

Switzerland has been hosting Onyx [1] for fiteen years now ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx_(interception_system)

Edit: typo

Re: Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

#15

Post by SunShiranui »

frobozz wrote: post #11
forcer wrote: post #9

Simple pricing. No need for a calculator. And then you quote prices in swiss franks instead of US dollars as its common in hosting industry. I don't have currency converter in my head nor I know USD->CHF rate

If you are looking at their website using a browser connected to the internet, you don't need to do currency conversions in you head and memorise the exchange rates every morning, you can just use that same browser to ask for a currency conversion from any of a number of sites, e.g. https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?#q=1%20chf%20in%20usd https://duckduckgo.com/?q=1chf+in+usd&ia=currency http://www.wolframalpha.com/input…

You do have a point, but it still would be more convenient if the website showed the price in USD\other currencies as well.

Re: Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

#16

Post by amatera »

flipp3r wrote: post #8

WOW that's expensive for no good reason. I can get a server like this for about 10% of the price at for example OVH. Apart from being based in Swiss which I'm sure you're not the only host, what does this have to offer that's worth the 1000% higher price?

It's in Switzerland, which is one of the most expensive countries.

Re: Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

#18

Post by harryf »

m_st wrote: post #17

OT: Not to sound negative, but I always find it strange to see these 'popular' banners on these (now standard) pricing pages. I'm sure for such a new product no pricing plan is yet 'popular' or do they already have so many customers?

popular with employees?

Re: Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

#19

Post by Cyberdog »

seivan wrote: post #12

Is there still a market for providers that only sell bare bone private servers? I wish more would look into cloning Heroku in terms of features and ease of deployment. It's not just easy to create, deploy and manage but it's easy to add a slave or replace Memcached with Redis.

> Is there still a market for providers that only sell bare bone private servers?

Are there still sysadmins out there who would prefer that their servers run only the softwtare they themselves installed on it, no more?

There's something to be said for turnkey solutions like Heroku, but there will always be those who want more control.

Re: Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care

#20

Post by _b8r0 »

piquadrat wrote: post #2

As a Swiss citizen myself, I am not convinced that hosting in Switzerland is any better privacy-wise than e.g. in Germany. New laws like BÜPF and NDG seem to get us closer to where the EU is in terms of what the government is allowed to access, and what providers are forced to log. This talk is a good intro on what's going on in Switzerland right now https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7205-netzpolitik_in_der_schweiz#...

It's also worth bearing in mind that a VPS has it's limits compared to physically segregated kit.
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