My only interest is missing as I see at first glance: GPU support Edit: found it as "Graphics Card" :D
There are not many providers that offer it, but if they do, it'll have that feature. What do you use it for, if I may ask? :)
Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers
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Re: Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers
#32It would be nice to also incorporate ratings somehow. I chose some filters that I wanted. Searched lowendbox for the vps provider that came up first and there are some truely awful reviews. I recommend anyone visit there first before purchasing.
Re: Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers
#33What's new in ServerHunter? - Improved search results display on mobile - Smarter text searches - New filter: BGP Sessions - Badges for 'Annual billing' and 'NAT IPv4' - Separate page for "Write a review" - Preserving newlines in reviews - Added a new "Price per specification" option to sorting and columns - Added a graph with pricing history in offer's page - Ability to save your favorite searches - Added offers fro…
If you distinguish broken and non-broken IPv4, maybe you should also distinguish broken and non-broken IPv6? Currently, it's impossible to distinguish offers with a proper /48 from broken crap with a single /64 or even less, which makes the comparison mostly useless for me, as there is a lot of broken crap in that market to wade through.
Seconding this, it's really annoying (and common) to buy a dedi with a "/48" only to find out that the prefix isn't actually routed to the server.
Incredible how many DCs can't seem to figure this out.
Re: Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers
#34It would be nice to also incorporate ratings somehow. I chose some filters that I wanted. Searched lowendbox for the vps provider that came up first and there are some truely awful reviews. I recommend anyone visit there first before purchasing.
We have reviews on our website but, unfortunately, most providers haven't received any reviews yet. We're hoping this will change as our website grows and we're working on getting more reviews on our website.
Do note that, as with most businesses, it's easy to get bad reviews and difficult to get good reviews. Make sure to check multiple sources of information to make an informed decision. :)
Re: Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers
#35What's new in ServerHunter? - Improved search results display on mobile - Smarter text searches - New filter: BGP Sessions - Badges for 'Annual billing' and 'NAT IPv4' - Separate page for "Write a review" - Preserving newlines in reviews - Added a new "Price per specification" option to sorting and columns - Added a graph with pricing history in offer's page - Ability to save your favorite searches - Added offers fro…
If you distinguish broken and non-broken IPv4, maybe you should also distinguish broken and non-broken IPv6? Currently, it's impossible to distinguish offers with a proper /48 from broken crap with a single /64 or even less, which makes the comparison mostly useless for me, as there is a lot of broken crap in that market to wade through.
Since IPv4 space is starting to become a significant cost, they make up a large percentage of the price for the cheapest VPSs. This is why some providers have started offering NAT VPSs - ideal for backups, monitoring, etc. Since NAT IPv4 is not the norm, this is something they clearly advertise on their website, and hence something we can easily distinguish.
With IPv6, the information from the provider is usually limited to "IPv6: yes/no", if they even mention it. The actual IPv6 space varies wildly from /48 to /56 and /64 - some providers even offer just tunnels or 10 IPv6 addresses. Since this is usually not mentioned on their website, we can't actually distinguish between them either. :(
Re: Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers
#36This is the best Show HN I've seen in awhile. Really really useful!
Thank you! :)
Re: Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers
#37Is there a tech writeup on how the site was built? What software is behind the faceted search?
The site and search experience is fast and I'd love to learn more about how it was built.
Re: Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers
#38I am wondering who is providing the information? Vultr list their "Dedicated" as 8 CPU, when it is not dedicated by Cloud VM, which I presume it is shared. And its CPU are not CPU Core but CPU Threads. These differences make the comparison a harder. Because in Dedicated you talk Core count, in Cloud VM you talk Thread Count ( vCPU ).
Just read your message again, please note the dedicated plan for Vultr is not shared, it's bare metal: https://www.vultr.com/pricing/baremetal/
The other plans are VPSs, which are indeed shared. :)
Re: Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers
#39The idea of creating a index of server providers is good, but all implementations are less-than-ideal, and in the worst case, useless. The core problem here is data quality, the magnitude of noise is usually high: * The server providers do not give out machine-readable data. * It's difficult to distinguish some details from specifications, such as vCPUs or dedicated cores. * Promotions and discounts cannot be recogni…
You're absolutely right, getting accurate data is one of the biggest challenges we're facing at the moment. I'd like to believe we're making great progress with it though. :) Initially, we started off with static data together with a management panel for hosts to add/edit/delete their offers. As you might have guessed, most providers didn't feel like doing this, and those that did made mistakes entering the data or d…
Thanks for your detailed response. I sincerely hope your project will be successful, so I don't have to spend a week, looking at all the details such as BGP tables and available payment processors, just to find a usable server in the future ;-)
Re: Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers
#40Is there a tech writeup on how the site was built? What software is behind the faceted search? The site and search experience is fast and I'd love to learn more about how it was built.
With only ~11,000 entries and what looks to be a pretty defined set of searchable fields, it should be a simple setup. I'd guess the search is powered by either Elasticsearch or Postgres/MySQL.
I think the more interesting part of the product is going to be the procurement of available servers which I don't have any guesses outside of public API's + web scraping to do that.