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1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6

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

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Post by vilpponen »

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"?

We offer completely scalable hosting at UpCloud. You get to choose your CPU, RAM, disk space and bandwidth is billed by the actual traffic.

So I wouldn't call it a technical thing, but more of a strategic decision in how you want to position your company + offering.

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

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Post by ksec »

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"?

Well there are many host that does this. Dediserve for example. But most of these Host are comparatively more expensive.

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

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Post by nileshgr »

ck2 wrote: post #17

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)…

Hetzner.de is also cheap for dedicated servers.

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

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Post by DoubleMalt »

warp wrote: post #25
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"?

At www.gandi.net you can add processor core, ram, disk space and network interfaces separately.

Resulting at higher prices for almost all use cases than this and DigitalOcean ...

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

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Post by nicholassmith »

ck2 wrote: post #17

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)…

As long as you're realistic it's not a bad deal, it'd act as a lovely irssi/ssh machine that I don't need to worry about for me.

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

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Post by DoubleMalt »

vilpponen wrote: post #31
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"?

We offer completely scalable hosting at UpCloud. You get to choose your CPU, RAM, disk space and bandwidth is billed by the actual traffic. So I wouldn't call it a technical thing, but more of a strategic decision in how you want to position your company + offering.

I did not see it mentioned except in the copy for the free trial: Are your servers at UpCloud all equipped with SSDs?

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

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Post by stonemetal »

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 makes things easier for the provider, build 1000 identical boxes then sell by the slice. It means they don't have to build odd boxes to deal with odd demand, or try to pair up high memory use low compute use with a low memory use high compute use client nodes.

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

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Post by qompiler »

ck2 wrote: post #17

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)…

Why not buy your own server and get it collocated?
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