8 reasons that a VPS is more awesome than you realise
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Re: 8 reasons that a VPS is more awesome than you realise
#2The HN crowd will probably know about these benefits. Nice executive summary for higher-up decision-makers, though.
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#3Even if everything you say is true, taking a look into your VPN prices pages, made me almost fall off my chair
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#4Even if everything you say is true, taking a look into your VPN prices pages, made me almost fall off my chair http://www.anchor.com.au/servers/
Quality costs money :)
Re: 8 reasons that a VPS is more awesome than you realise
#5The HN crowd will probably know about these benefits. Nice executive summary for higher-up decision-makers, though.
This is a fluff piece, probably written for SEO juice. At least the submitter of the story is open in his profile that he works for the company in question (anchor) and is the author of the piece
A better article would have quantified all the measurable metrics like "virtual machines are 'fast'" and talked about some of the negatives - like privacy/security concerns etc.
What I want to know is - why are they so much more expensive than linode(for example). These guys are offering a 512Mb VPS @80$/m compared to 19.95@linode. They also charge 100$ for setup - (doing everything manually?)
(Disclaimer - I am a happy linode customer)
Re: 8 reasons that a VPS is more awesome than you realise
#6The HN crowd will probably know about these benefits. Nice executive summary for higher-up decision-makers, though.
This is a fluff piece, probably written for SEO juice. At least the submitter of the story is open in his profile that he works for the company in question (anchor) and is the author of the piece A better article would have quantified all the measurable metrics like "virtual machines are 'fast'" and talked about some of the negatives - like privacy/security concerns etc. What I want to know is - why are they so much…
Different markets for different people. Anchor isn't going after the commodity/volume end of the market like Linnode. Horses for courses.
Re: 8 reasons that a VPS is more awesome than you realise
#7VPS (on Xen, KVM, ...) are all fine and dandy if you control the underlying host machine.
Good luck going with a provider that overbook their machines beyond usefulness (most do).
Re: 8 reasons that a VPS is more awesome than you realise
#8The HN crowd will probably know about these benefits. Nice executive summary for higher-up decision-makers, though.
This is a fluff piece, probably written for SEO juice. At least the submitter of the story is open in his profile that he works for the company in question (anchor) and is the author of the piece A better article would have quantified all the measurable metrics like "virtual machines are 'fast'" and talked about some of the negatives - like privacy/security concerns etc. What I want to know is - why are they so much…
What I want to know is - why are they so much more expensive than linode(for example).
Hosting prices in Australia are all super-expensive.
Re: 8 reasons that a VPS is more awesome than you realise
#9The HN crowd will probably know about these benefits. Nice executive summary for higher-up decision-makers, though.
This is a fluff piece, probably written for SEO juice. At least the submitter of the story is open in his profile that he works for the company in question (anchor) and is the author of the piece A better article would have quantified all the measurable metrics like "virtual machines are 'fast'" and talked about some of the negatives - like privacy/security concerns etc. What I want to know is - why are they so much…
You shouldn't be a happy Linode customer. They still haven't owned up to what happened during that Bitcoin incident and what they've done to stop it happening again. Major security incidents DEMAND transparency e.g. look how professional Cloudflare was.
So for all you know your VPS could still be hacked in seconds despite whatever security measures you have in place.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a fluff piece, probably written for SEO juice. At least the submitter of the story is open in his profile that he works for the company in question (anchor) and is the author of the piece A better article would have quantified all the measurable metrics like "virtual machines are 'fast'" and talked about some of the negatives - like privacy/security concerns etc. What I want to know is - why are they so much…
What I want to know is - why are they so much more expensive than linode(for example). Hosting prices in Australia are all super-expensive.
Hosting is a lot more expensive in Australia.. To give you some idea, for wholesale bandwidth alone we pay in the order of 20times what it costs in the US or Europe.
The reality is we're a long way from everywhere. When we connect into the US we need to run the cables 15,000kms and we get to pick up the vast majority of the costs to do so. Then when you try split that cost over 22 million people versus the 300million++ in the US, you end up with economies of scale which are way out of whack with what your familiar with. :)
To give you some idea, the vast majority of residential DSL connections cost in the order of $100/month .. and only come with 150GB data allowance. :)