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Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by datamantle » Thu, Sep 15, 2016, 5:52 PM UTC

vnglst wrote: post #4

How is this different from Digital Ocean?

We aren't other than our Waterloo, Ontario location.

We're focusing on some new features which are comparable to Digital Ocean.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by datamantle » Thu, Sep 15, 2016, 5:53 PM UTC

throwaway1974 wrote: post #16

Can I pay with bitcoin? if not then why? I currently use vultr and it spins up/down instances when my program needs it an automatically pay them with bitcoin

We're going to integrate this with Stripe soon.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by cookiecaper » Thu, Sep 15, 2016, 5:53 PM UTC

jjkmk wrote: post #14

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.

Whats wrong with using Dreamhost for nameservers, does it make any difference at all?

I've used Dreamhost as my primary registrar for something like 15 years now and generally I've used them for DNS too. Their nameservers and DNS updating is pretty wonky. Really slow to update and admins that insist the update made in the Control Panel has fully propagated across their internal nameservers when it clearly hadn't. Had to wait hours for it to actually propagate out to their real public-facing nameservers a few times. Not worth it, especially when you just need to make a quick change.

I basically quit using Dreamhost for any hosting-related activities other than DNS a long time ago. Even though my shared account is old and so it supposedly has unlimited everything, it's throttled to like 300k (I assume all shared plans are). Also not worth it in the age of the $5/mo VPS.

I flirted with Hover as a registrar for a few names but didn't like it either.

I've started using Route53 for all DNS-related services, including name registration, and I'm happy with it. Wish I didn't have to pay the registration fee again to move all of my domains over to Route53 or I'd be off DH completely by now.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by kinkdr » Thu, Sep 15, 2016, 5:53 PM UTC

Will definitely give it a try. Looks really promising, and love the low prices.

PS: Your front page has a tiny bit of horizontal scrolling. Have a look at your CSS.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by datamantle » Thu, Sep 15, 2016, 5:54 PM UTC

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.

Honestly, it's the network capacity / DDoS. Hence why we are using Google to host the site.

Name-servers? Yeah, we need to change that, but dreamhost was simply the first register we used for the site so we kept it the same. We'll be switching to the same nameservers as our rdns host soon.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by datamantle » Thu, Sep 15, 2016, 5:57 PM UTC

Thanks everyone for the comments!

If any of you want to try the service for free, use the promo code LAUNCH and it'll add credit to your account.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by udkl » Thu, Sep 15, 2016, 5:57 PM UTC

Sami_Lehtinen wrote: post #10

http://upcloud.com simple efficient and cheaper than many. Yet it's quality, so it isn't really cheap like providers like http://time4vps.eu

ovh is a cheaper (& better?) alternative : https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-ssd.xml

  OpenStack KVM
  1 vCore
  2.4 GHz
  2 GB RAM
  10 GB SSD
  Local RAID 10
  $3.49/month

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by datamantle » Thu, Sep 15, 2016, 5:58 PM UTC

kinkdr wrote: post #24

Will definitely give it a try. Looks really promising, and love the low prices. PS: Your front page has a tiny bit of horizontal scrolling. Have a look at your CSS.

Thanks man! I'll fix that.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by anon4711 » Thu, Sep 15, 2016, 6:05 PM UTC

"Sign up to view more plans"

Except that after I sign up, I still can't view the plans until I set up my billing details. Meh.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by kej » Thu, Sep 15, 2016, 6:06 PM UTC

tholford wrote: post #19

jjkmk wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whats wrong with using Dreamhost for nameservers, does it make any difference at all?

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.