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1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6

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Re: 1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6

#11

Post by derefr »

Here's the #1 question I have for any of these hosts, and I never see it answered: how stable is network throughput?

I run what amounts to a fancy real-time chat service. Are my users guaranteed a slice of the pipe? Do you have the resources to make sure they won't lag horribly if my neighbor is getting DDoSed?

Keep in mind that there is a difference between "we actively make sure you'll have a good experience" and "you happened to get provisioned on a machine with good neighbors", even though the anecdotes will be identical.

Re: 1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6

#14

Post by tych0 »

Why does every host offer a plan that scales at the same rate in every column (CPU, RAM, Disk space, bytes/month)?

I can think of almost no application which requires lots of all of these. Why isn't there a host which allows you to scale your own requirements? Is it a technical thing, or just another form of "oversell and underprovision because most people won't use their plan"?

Re: 1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6

#16

Post by niggler »

tych0 wrote: post #14

Why does every host offer a plan that scales at the same rate in every column (CPU, RAM, Disk space, bytes/month)? I can think of almost no application which requires lots of all of these. Why isn't there a host which allows you to scale your own requirements? Is it a technical thing, or just another form of "oversell and underprovision because most people won't use their plan"?

it's far easier to standardize (xsmall, small, medium, large, xlarge) than to allow for custom requirements for the purposes of communication. Most people don't necessarily know exactly how much they'll need, so its easy to just say "large".

Plus, in a virtual setup, optimizing allocations with custom requirements is a far trickier algorithmic problem.

Re: 1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6

#17

Post by ck2 »

This is pretty much a free advertisement for non-competitive pricing.

You have no idea how many neighbors you have on that vps.

And that "vcpu" is likely a hyperthreaded core, not physical, so it's a "half core" in reality.

    Monthly	vCPU	Memory	SSD	Transfer
    $6		1	1GB	10GB	1TB
    $12		1	2GB	20GB	1TB
    $18		1	3GB	30GB	2TB
    $24		2	4GB	40GB	3TB
    $48		2	8GB	60GB	4TB
    $96		4	16GB	100GB	5TB
    $192	8	32GB	200GB	6TB
At that "4 core" (virtual) pricing I'd take dedicated from OVH instead [1]

The $6 pricepoint is likely to just get you in the door for an upsell.

Why would you subject yourself to unknown neighbors with unknown abusive habits on the server resources when you can just get a dedicated with SSD for less money and co-host your own projects with known behaviors (and without the overhead of a vps hypervisor).

[1] http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/sp_32g_ssd.xml

Re: 1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6

#18

Post by cpg »

Red flags:

> Ubiquity offers a 100% uptime SLA on our entire Cloud infrastructure

> In the unlikely event that one of the solid state hard disks fails on the Ubiquity Cloud there will be no data loss and no impact on the cloud instance's performance

Re: 1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6

#19

Post by MDCore »

I'm now confused about what "Cloud Hosting" is. I thought it was a "virtual" dedicated server. All that ubiquity provides is a control panel: > Our managed cloud servers come with cPanel/WHM access. No root access is provided. How is this different from regular hosting you can get elsewhere far cheaper? Is it just the promises of RAM and SSD?

Re: 1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6

#20

Post by ushi »

derefr wrote: post #11

Here's the #1 question I have for any of these hosts, and I never see it answered: how stable is network throughput? I run what amounts to a fancy real-time chat service. Are my users guaranteed a slice of the pipe? Do you have the resources to make sure they won't lag horribly if my neighbor is getting DDoSed? Keep in mind that there is a difference between "we actively make sure you'll have a good experience" and "…

A part of your question is answered here:

https://www.ubiquityservers.com/ddos-protection

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