Does the SMS activation messages come to US phone numbers? I haven't received mine yet.
We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.
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Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.
#12wow, you're really fast sending the sms, it arrived just when I clicked the button.By the way, I don't really like your administration panel, it's kind of ugly and it reminds me very much gandi's admin panel.
Thanks for the comment! Design is something we're really keen on, so all comments regarding usability are taken seriously.
The front page uses both "MB" and "Mt" when talking about the server's memory size. "Mt" is really weirding me out, no idea what it means.
Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.
#13And to add the fine print:1) We give 100 euro of credit that enables you to run it for more than 70 days.2) No commitments, credit cards needed. 3) Non-transferrable, non-refundable, one per account - 1000 servers given out in total. We're just eager to make a splash and hear feedback on how people use and would like to use a service like ours. ps. Here's our recent discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…
Hi, I've just signed up for a server, and my initial impression is a happy one. I'm going to trial a service on it and I'll try and provide as much feedback as I can.
Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.
#14Why do ISPs always have sysadmins who look so smart? Where do you find them? https://en.upcloud.com/images/ourmanindc.jpg
Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.
#15How does this compare to DigitalOcean, which is about a quarter of the price of this? ($19+ vs $5), for similar specs?
I can only comment on our offering, but naturally DigitalOcean is putting up great competition in terms of pricing.
A few things to consider when hosting with us:
1) We only use enterprise grade hardware currently from Dell and all network related devices are from Cisco (so high performance is guaranteed through out the device lifecycle in SSDs for example).
2) We take redundancy very seriously. All of our stack is redundant from routers, switches to the software level - basically. Performance is nothing without control meaning your data is hosted always on two separate storage backends, both RAID5 secured. In addition to this, you can naturally take backups which are hosted on a different physical machine.
3) Control: we have Android and iOS apps to control your servers when not in front of your computer. You can create the most basic server tasks while on the go. In addition to the mobile apps, our API enables more demanding solutions to be put in place by clients. We also use our own API for our Control Panel, so it is always up to date with the latest additions.
4) 100% SLA: as we have built everything by ourselves we can guarantee extreme availability (and also taking into account our redundancy).
Just to name a few.
Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.
#16And to add the fine print:1) We give 100 euro of credit that enables you to run it for more than 70 days.2) No commitments, credit cards needed. 3) Non-transferrable, non-refundable, one per account - 1000 servers given out in total. We're just eager to make a splash and hear feedback on how people use and would like to use a service like ours. ps. Here's our recent discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…
Hi, I've just signed up for a server, and my initial impression is a happy one. I'm going to trial a service on it and I'll try and provide as much feedback as I can.
Thanks, looking forwards to it!
Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.
#17Flagged as blatant advertising. 100€ is nothing, and I have to make the investment to work out how to use your cloud infrastructure. That investment (of time) is worth much more than 100€, so once the 100€ run out I will feel that I have invested so much already, it will be cheaper to keep using your service. I'm sorry, but that is not a give-away, it's just a bait. Btw. Google App Engine is currently "giving away" 1…
Probably because you need to have an "investment of time" much bigger tryin to adapt your infrastructure/app to Google App Engine compared to using a simple IaaS provider where you just have to spin up a virtual machine and use it like a normal VPS/physical server (if you dont want to integrate their API of course)
Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.
#18Does the SMS activation messages come to US phone numbers? I haven't received mine yet.
They should! We just had a major push on our partners' SMS gateway so if it hasn't come by now - please use the voice activation we have in place (please check instructions in your e-mail).
Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.
#19How does this compare to DigitalOcean, which is about a quarter of the price of this? ($19+ vs $5), for similar specs?
I can only comment on our offering, but naturally DigitalOcean is putting up great competition in terms of pricing. A few things to consider when hosting with us: 1) We only use enterprise grade hardware currently from Dell and all network related devices are from Cisco (so high performance is guaranteed through out the device lifecycle in SSDs for example). 2) We take redundancy very seriously. All of our stack is r…
>"100% SLA"
really? what if the network goes down?
Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.
#20Flagged as blatant advertising. 100€ is nothing, and I have to make the investment to work out how to use your cloud infrastructure. That investment (of time) is worth much more than 100€, so once the 100€ run out I will feel that I have invested so much already, it will be cheaper to keep using your service. I'm sorry, but that is not a give-away, it's just a bait. Btw. Google App Engine is currently "giving away" 1…
Thanks for the comment!
As a small company, we can't give out machines/resources indefinitely so we need to have a cap on this.
However, I do believe 100 euros towards a free server is a significant giveaway on our part and due to the nature of cloud computing, not everyone needs to host their services from here on onwards (think campaigns, etc.).
Sad to have received the flag, but we're just trying to offer a server for developers to test/play with.