Somebody recently informed me of Profit Server: https://profitserver.ru/en/
The benefits are that the service is extremely cheap.
Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#202My employer operates 18 data centers in 7 countries around the world. We offer a competitive array of services and features, dynamic networking configuration, numerous ecosystem partners, API access to all of this, and high-quality support. https://www.ctl.io/
I'm not sure why you've been downvoted, so I gave you my upvote because your comment is relevant.
I've clicked on the link and your employer is CenturyLink, which is not a bunch of friends with a rack in a garage.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#203Google Cloud, Azure, IBM Softlayer, RackSpace, Digital Ocean, Linode.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#204Google cloud - I have recently been working on setting up our company's entire infrastructure on google cloud and we were up and running in no time (very happy currently). - Great pricing - Great API (command line, REST) - Nearly perfect documentation - Awesome support (I had requested to allow more static ip addresses to be reserved and they resolved my ticket in less than 4 hours) - Very intuitive interface They gi…
"great pricing" it is not. None of the major cloud providers have great pricing with the exception of some niche cases. Look at Hetzner. Look at the cheap VPS options. Google/AWS don't come even close.
Hetzner is very much a budget host with mediocre support, etc. Most of their servers are built with desktop-grade hardware. You're comparing apples and oranges.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#205The following are a few alternatives off the top of my head: * Google Compute Engine * Microsoft Azure * Joyent * IBM BlueMix * Linode (like DigitalOcean more VPS than cloud provider)
UpCloud is worth of checking out: https://www.upcloud.com/ - It's a pure VPS vendor with full management API.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#206If you want to focus on the code and not the servers, give a try to https://zeit.co/now Disclosure: co-founder and CEO
MDG is expanding to the whole node.js ecosystem. You should become established before Galaxy enters your market !!!
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
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> Have you had bad experiences with Google Cloud platform support specifically? Yes, and cancelled our account as a result.
Sorry to hear that. Certainly not what we strive for. May I ask you to send me your specific experience to my email? (username at google dotcom). I would be happy to share it with our support teams and get a postmortem going? (I work at Google Cloud)
Thanks for the offer. I'm swamped and we moved off of GCE last spring, so I don't have the info readily available.
If we consider GCE in the future, I'll ping you before we do so we can ensure what happened to us then doesn't happen again.
Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#208It depends what your app stack requirement is.
Google appengine is PAAS based, has competitive features and low priced than AWS EBS comparative. Google compute service is IAAS based and EC2 comparative.
I found, transition from AWS to GAE is usually not that easy and quick at least for a simple rails app deployment using Postgres.
Appengine has still less developers community which is why learning curve is high and you need to dig and troubleshoot more than AWS which is abundant with tutorials, gems, plugins etc.
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I would love to read more about AWS vs Azure, how services compare, and strategies on how to avoid lock in. Any recommendation?
OK, I'll write a blog post about this, but it effectively boils down to use something standard that you can run yourself or on another provider. For example on AWS, using RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server) or ElastiCache (memcached, redis) is fairly low lock in. You can run all of these yourself or use another cloud. Azure offers a similar hosted redis service for instance. However, something like Lambda or DynamoDB…
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They also have their cheaper branch www.kimsufi.com, lower specs, still dedicated. And you still wouldn't believe the speed difference of a low atom with a VPS, even if the VPS is running on a xeon. Goes double for tail latency.
Also the uptime on my kimsufi is 530 days, you're unlikely to get that with a VPS, or 'cloud instance'.
I wondered about that as I have tons of VPSes - the highest was in the 300s. My Hetzner server, though, 1389 days and counting!