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Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by JoshTriplett »

datamantle wrote: post #20
JoshTriplett wrote: post #12

This looks interesting, but I'm very hesitant to try a new cloud provider with anything critical. What do people do to gain confidence in a cloud provider, other than wait and see if early adopters report anything breaking? Also, does this provide access to a management API, to programmatically start, configure, and stop servers?

We're working on the API (we use one internally, but we just need more testing / robustness of it before we launch anything)

In an ideal world, consider providing a standard API (e.g. OpenStack) rather than a provider-specific one.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by phillc73 »

datamantle wrote: post #26

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.

Still need to add credit card details. Can understand why you might want to do that, but it is now a barrier too high for me in order to just try out something which could be interesting.

EDIT: As per the comment below, this does indeed work. I initially tried on my phone and I kept seeing an error to complete the missing fields. On my desktop, it worked. Thanks.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by no1youknowz »

udkl wrote: post #27
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

Upvoted. Thank you for reminding me again about OVH. I was considering DO, but at these prices. I can spin something up and not even think about the cost.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by liberix »

phillc73 wrote: post #32
datamantle wrote: post #26

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.

Still need to add credit card details. Can understand why you might want to do that, but it is now a barrier too high for me in order to just try out something which could be interesting. EDIT: As per the comment below, this does indeed work. I initially tried on my phone and I kept seeing an error to complete the missing fields. On my desktop, it worked. Thanks.

You can get the free credit if you just press ENTER after entering the promo code (without needing to enter the credit card details). It's not very intuitive, but it worked for me.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by tadaskay »

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

Thanks for introducing time4vps: I was very surprised I can get a box for $1/month. Going through their website I found that in fact it is being run by IV (a major and reliable long-time local player in VPS/VDS/hosting market), so I wouldn't worry about the quality. Their network and infrastructure is superb.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by Normal_gaussian »

udkl wrote: post #27
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

I'm currently running some OVH boxes and my largest gripe is the low storage space.

That's the only thing that would draw me to another provider

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by Normal_gaussian »

udkl wrote: post #27
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

I'm currently running some OVH boxes and my largest gripe is the low storage space.

That's the only thing that would draw me to another provider

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by deadlyllama »

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…

Vultr has many more locations than the others. There aren't too many good, affordable providers in AU/NZ.

Re: Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

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Post by corobo »

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.

If their service goes down I'd rather their site stay up to tell me when they're back to be fair.
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