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What is the cost of a Cisco Nexus 7000 Router and Switch?
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What is the cost of a Cisco Nexus 7000 Router and Switch?
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AWS support gets a lot better once you're an enterprise level user.
Define "lots better". Qualify with examples. My experiences with AWS have consistently been absolutely awful. Things akin to "We're sorry your instance has gone away for no apparent reason. Thank you for writing." This does not ever happen on Linode.
"Your instance may have been rooted. But we won't tell you what happened, whether it is fixed or whether it will happen again."
Linode is definitely one of the best VPS providers. They don't market it as 'fanatical', but their support is simply incredible. I like AWS too, but the lack of support (unless you pay loads) keeps me with Linode. Nextgen sounds cool. Extra bandwidth is great. I also hope they add more RAM and provide some kind of a storage pool to store images/snapshots/virtual-disks between different linodes (similar to cloudfiles…
Their support is quick, but they only solve the problem if it's easy. My linode IP ended up on an email block list because of someone else on the subnet. I was on vacation so I wanted a quick solution and I asked for an extra IP for a week. They wouldn't do for any amount of money. I had to set up an extra server and redirect connections instead.
trunking an additional vlan into their virtual pool just for you would have constituted a major production change in probably 2 or 3 core switch layers.
the operational risk and expenditure for this kind of change easily goes into the thousands of dollars, possibly tens of thousands if they screw something up.
what exactly is "any amount of money" to you? because to them and other service providers, it means tens of thousands of dollars, not another 50 bucks.
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If you're actually running a business off of a VPS, where the cost of downtime far outstrips the monthly bill, it's absolutely worth paying more. I have a VPS I found on lowend box. $5/month for a 512MB OpenVZ. It's a pretty good deal, and it does what I need it to do; I have full control over it, I can give other people access to it, I can run any kind of website on it as long as I don't care too much about performa…
" ... and they tend to scrape by just barely exceeding 99.90% [uptime] " Wow. That sentence makes 99.9% uptime sound really shitty.
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" ... and they tend to scrape by just barely exceeding 99.90% [uptime] " Wow. That sentence makes 99.9% uptime sound really shitty.
Well, these days it is. You want five nines (99.999%) on mission-critical applications.
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" ... and they tend to scrape by just barely exceeding 99.90% [uptime] " Wow. That sentence makes 99.9% uptime sound really shitty.
Do you consider a 45-minute outage once a month to be acceptable? Maybe for the price, it is.
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If you're actually running a business off of a VPS, where the cost of downtime far outstrips the monthly bill, it's absolutely worth paying more. I have a VPS I found on lowend box. $5/month for a 512MB OpenVZ. It's a pretty good deal, and it does what I need it to do; I have full control over it, I can give other people access to it, I can run any kind of website on it as long as I don't care too much about performa…
If you're actually running a business, then redundancy is the way to go, not spending more on real hardware. With a VPS, you're able to achieve redundancy fairly easily, provided you have multiple datacenters available (Linode does). Without some sort of failover, a dead server means downtime whether you're dedicated or VPS. Also, Linode's SLA may be 99.9%, but I've experienced with two businesses, using Linode over…
This is especially true given that more often than not, within the first 5 times you use it, you'll experience some bug in your HA setup that leads to some complicated, slow-to-diagnose-and-fix failure.
I never quite understood the love for premium vps like linode (also remember slicehost?). If you check out lowendbox vps, their top-rated providers almost always beats linode (and alike) in almost all category you can think of. Its nice that they are now increasing the bandwidth cap, but it was on the low side to begin with. My takeaway from this is that "linode finally joins everyone else in network speed and bandwi…
I also have a few sites on RamNode and BuyVM which were voted as the better low end providers. They're anything but low end. I am getting better performance SSDs, better CPUs), more resources for 1/2 the cost of a comparable Linode VPS. No problems yet, going on three months. Their control panels leave a lot to be desired compared to Linode.