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Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by d33 »

tedivm wrote: post #47
sfilargi wrote: post #18

I am a big fun of DO. Their performance is consistent and their support is simply awesome. However I do find myself using Linode lately as I get double the memory for the same price. I hope DO follow and increase the memory on their nodes.

I sent them a message saying exactly that- I've moved all my machines to linode because the price for the speed (both memory and cpu) is much better. They responded back saying that they are competing on platform, not price.

Hey, I did the same! Somehow, I don't believe them, though I have to say that their e-mail sounded quite assertive. I guess they'll change their mind when they lose enough profit.

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by basvdwollenberg »

nik736 wrote: post #32
debian3 wrote: post #31

"What we really miss for all of those providers is some kind of transit map per location, where we can see what transit providers are connected in each location." For OVH http://weathermap.ovh.net

Ahh, great, now that I see it I think Online.net has something similar.

Yea they do: http://netmap.online.net (link for anyone else looking for it).

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by trelliscoded »

I've been messing around with Scaleway lately and found out a few interesting things.

Scaleway is part of the Iliad family of companies, which you probably haven't heard about if you're outside of Europe. This includes Online, a networking provider and Scaleway's parent, and Free, which is a huge French ISP with a fairly hackery internal culture.

Online makes their network map public:

http://map.online.net/

Based on the names, it looks like it's 100% Cisco with a mix of Nexus 9000s, Catalyst 4500e edge, and 4900 ToR switches.

Scaleway is one of the only cloud providers I've seen that is using NBASE-T technology. The Intel Avoton SoCs used by their C2 instances support 2.5Gbps link speeds using an appropriate external PHY.

Their C1 instances are Marvell Armada 370 XP parts, datasheet here:

http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/armada-xp/assets/...

These are using 1 gig connections. The instances I've spun up connect to a gateway with a Cisco MAC address.

The C2 instances connect to gateways with MAC addresses registered to Freebox SAS. Figuring this out took some digging. It turns out that Scaleway/Online is manufacturing their own 2.5G capable switches. Because Free, the ISP, already has an OUI registered and was the only company in the conglomerate which made hardware, it looks like Online had Free make some custom switches to deploy in their datacenters.

They're also making their own BIOS for the C2 instances. dmidecode reports the following cutesy BIOS data:

Manufacturer: Online Labs Product Name: SR Version: (^_^) Serial Number: 42

The root devices for C1 and C2 instances are both NBD. Performance was better than I expected; I get wire rate I/O throughput on both (>90MB/sec on C1 and >250MB/sec on C2). Of course, the disk bandwidth is shared with the Internet connection on both instances, so there might be contention for some applications.

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by cschmittiey »

cuu508 wrote: post #33
superasn wrote: post #14

I think you should also add another table for hosting services that offer load-balancing. I read recently that Digital Ocean added that but not sure about the others. It is one of the reason why we're still on AWS.

Yep, usually also looking for * IPv6 * floating/elastic IPs * API, wrapper libraries, CLI tools

I know Lunanode will do load balancing, ipv6, and floating IPs, if you haven't found one to your satisfaction yet.

Not a shill, just a happy customer.

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by St-Clock »

nik736 wrote: post #30
XERQ wrote: post #27

I'm the founder of SSD Nodes, Inc., which is a bootstrapped SSD-based hosting provider for startups that I've been working on since 2011. Some of our clients have posted benchmarks showing great performance, such as 800MB/s+ throughput and 292K IOPS: https://lowendbox.com/blog/ssdnodes-high-ram-ssd-vps-startin... Direct link to the benchmark: https://serverscope.io/trials/lrAw Special pricing for startups: https://ww…

If I would be able to downvote you, I would. My benchmark/review is about hourly billing providers where I am able to spin up a server within a minute, which is not the case for your company. You are simply one of the 10000 companies that offer regular Virtual Private Servers.

Hi, I really liked your post and your comments about your experience with each provider, but I totally disliked your answer and the one below. I didn't see anywhere that your benchmark was only about hourly billing providers so I find your reply disrespectful. Maybe you should update the title or the text if you want to take such stance?

Moreover, to me, regular VPS == openvz and not hourly billing (openvz would also disqualify ssdnodes).

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by debian3 »

XERQ wrote: post #34
nik736 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I would be able to downvote you, I would. My benchmark/review is about hourly billing providers where I am able to spin up a server within a minute, which is not the case for your company. You are simply one of the 10000 companies that offer regular Virtual Private Servers.

Thanks for taking the time to respond, really appreciate it. You mentioned hourly billing, but the OVH plans you reviewed are monthly[0], and all the pricing you listed on the site is monthly. We're trying to go in a different direction from hourly, and instead offer very deep discounts for annually. So customers can get 8GB RAM for $6.49/month ($77.99/year) and have stellar performance with a provisioning time of ab…

Stop spamming

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by jrapdx3 »

daurnimator wrote: post #54

I feel like my comment (praising vultr) from a couple of weeks ago is validated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13678441

I've been using Vultr for a couple of years and have been satisfied with the service. I initially went with Vultr because at the time it was one of few providers that offered FreeBSD and the lowest cost. In contrast to comments in the article I've found Vultr tech support to be responsive. Haven't needed it much since they maintain a good database of tech info which has answered almost all questions.

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by hueving »

tedivm wrote: post #47
sfilargi wrote: post #18

I am a big fun of DO. Their performance is consistent and their support is simply awesome. However I do find myself using Linode lately as I get double the memory for the same price. I hope DO follow and increase the memory on their nodes.

I sent them a message saying exactly that- I've moved all my machines to linode because the price for the speed (both memory and cpu) is much better. They responded back saying that they are competing on platform, not price.

>They responded back saying that they are competing on platform, not price.

A weird thing to say when most people I know who use them are doing it for the cheap price.

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