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I rather wish they had worded it as 'We assume you are not stupid'. Or they are assuming wrong in my case?
"We assume you are not stupid" means they are making an assumption of intelligence, whereas "we don't assume you are stupid" means they make no assumption one way or the other. I wonder which is more appropriate?
Hmm, there seem to be a number of syntax errors highlighted when viewing the source code. If I was inviting people to view the source, I would probably want it to be clean. Here's validator output: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fprgmr.com%2Fx...
The only actual error in there is the 'anchor' attribute (should be 'name'), the rest is just warnings for self-closing tags and unencoded ampersands. Not that bad, considering it's still using an HTML 4 doctype.
I had a strange experience with these guys. I signed up and didn't get anything back. When I sent an e-mail two days later telling them to just forget it and cancel my account, they told me they were busy and didn't get around to setting up my VPS. Just weird...
Seems like a non-automated or a semi-automated provisioning on their side; I wonder what else isn't automated.
But, it is a pretty big problem if someone needs a new instance right away, or if someone needs an upgrade right away, and for system problems that don't hit my pager (though we're working on improving that one.)
They seem really expensive. I use buyvm.net and love them.
It is a fair criticism, though; the KVM prices are comparable to Xen prices, and in that department, they have me beat for guests smaller than 1024M.[1] And you are right that it is time for me to increase my ram per dollar (and my transit per dollar) to remain in the niche where I live. I'm working on it, and you can be sure that existing customers will get that upgrade before I offer it to new users.
[1]I price things at a flat fee per customer ($4) then a cost per unit of ram ($1 for every 64M ram) - I find that there are many providers that beat me on the low end but that I beat on the high end. This is in part an artefact of my manual processes, (or rather, an artefact of how manual per-user processes altered my pricing choices.)
I rather wish they had worded it as 'We assume you are not stupid'. Or they are assuming wrong in my case?
"We assume you are not stupid" means they are making an assumption of intelligence, whereas "we don't assume you are stupid" means they make no assumption one way or the other. I wonder which is more appropriate?
I really love the tone they use on the status blog http://blog.prgmr.com/xenophilia/ eg: = update on rehnquist well, it's down again, so I don't know what the heck is going on. I'm going to swap to new hardware this evening (will involve a graceful shutdown) Note, until then, all new provisioning is on hold.
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The only actual error in there is the 'anchor' attribute (should be 'name'), the rest is just warnings for self-closing tags and unencoded ampersands. Not that bad, considering it's still using an HTML 4 doctype.
to be fair, I fixed a few real errors after I was pointed at this link; I was distracted by a meeting about more bandwidth before I could comment.
They seem really expensive. I use buyvm.net and love them.
make sure you are comparing to the KVM prices; OpenVZ is cheaper because allocated ram is... not comparable to allocated ram in xen or kvm. It is a fair criticism, though; the KVM prices are comparable to Xen prices, and in that department, they have me beat for guests smaller than 1024M.[1] And you are right that it is time for me to increase my ram per dollar (and my transit per dollar) to remain in the niche where…
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I've been a customer for years. They're a great operation. Their owner is on hacker news with username lsc.
I believe you, but I was gonna give them I try and apparently I can't!
If you don't want to try this route, follow @FrantechCA on twitter and watch for announcements. Stock sells out in a matter of days, especially their smaller instances.
You can also check out www.doesbuyvmhavestock.com .
Not shilling, I just went through this to get on a $15/year OVZ and thought it may help whomever is interested.