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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
Lol, I migrated from Linode to DigitalOcean one month ago. The pricing of UbiquityServers seems very tempting, however I will calm down this time :) Anyway, has somebody had a chance to try both DO & US?
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 "…
Bottom line: You get what you pay for. End of story.
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
The second can be interpreted two ways... Do we start at any state or a perfect state? If you start will all good drives and one fails, it shouldn't affect anything assuming they're using raid. With raid mirroring there shouldn't be an impact on the performance either. However if you start with some number of disks already failing, of course there will be data loss. They could probably say that they're doing N+X redundancy instead to be clear.
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"?
Lol, I migrated from Linode to DigitalOcean one month ago. The pricing of UbiquityServers seems very tempting, however I will calm down this time :) Anyway, has somebody had a chance to try both DO & US?
Could you possibly take some time to tell us how the switch from Linode went and how you feel about it now? (I'm a Linode customer)
I had a Linode 512 and switched to a 2x512 Dropplet setup and put my Database on one 512 and my Rails app server on the other.
My stuff runs as quickly if not quicker and I spend $10/mo less. In addition to this I also have a clear scaling path (e.g. If my DB grows I can up it to a 1gb. If my traffic grows I can either move the app server to a 1gb or maybe get a few more 512's and setup a load balancer.)
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 "…
This is a great question. Something I've been thinking about a lot is also the benchmarking of redundancy and the protection of one's data.
It's easy to benchmark performance, but as Pirelli stated in their advertising: speed is nothing without control. I feel the same about online hosting providers.
Naturally I have no knowledge of US redundancy solutions, but it's one of the most critical yet toughest things to compare when choosing a new hosting provider.
Best of luck to US though!
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 "…
Website seems down. Not a good sign.