Anyone can give a first-hand experience on this cloud hosting offer?
1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6
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Re: 1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6
#42This 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.
You can also get 2 free servers a month from Amazon.com (1 Linux one windows). It's actually 750 hours each so could use more than one at a time if you turned them off afterword. http://aws.amazon.com/free/
Note: These free tiers are only available to new AWS customers, and are available for 12 months following your AWS sign-up date
Re: 1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6
#43This 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?
Co-lo for a single server is not practical if you are relying on the datacenter techs for repair/replacement. When it's their own hardware and the have hundreds (or thousands) of identical systems, much easier/cheaper.
Re: 1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You can also get 2 free servers a month from Amazon.com (1 Linux one windows). It's actually 750 hours each so could use more than one at a time if you turned them off afterword. http://aws.amazon.com/free/ Note: These free tiers are only available to new AWS customers, and are available for 12 months following your AWS sign-up date
Please don't present this as equivalent. AWS's free tier, amortized over the life of a five-year web service, isn't free, or even cheap.
Now, I did make pretty good use of AWS myself for that first year... and then it ran out, and suddenly AWS was much more expensive than Linode (and more recently, DigitalOcean.)
When all you want is "a thing to keep your Rails app running for its measly 10K hits a day" AWS loses hands-down. It's just not their use-case.
Re: 1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6
#45Why 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"?
Also check patio11's article on simplifying your pricing models: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/13/doubling-saas-revenue/
Re: 1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6
#46Why 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.
> and bandwidth is billed by the actual traffic
Is that billed by usage, or billed by throughput? I'd love to get a cheap rate on something like "guaranteed 10Gbps port; 100GB monthly transfer cap."
Re: 1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 made the same switch. 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…
I am still waiting for Linode to React. At the moment i am still trying to find a host that sit somewhere in the middle between DO and Linode.
Re: 1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 made the same switch. 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…
My one complaint with DigitalOcean is that I had a dev server setup and I was snapshoting it and destroying it when not in use then recreating it from the snapshot when I needed it. A few weeks ago they had a failure of some sort and my snapshot was lost.
It took me a fairly long time to setup the dev environment so I was a bit pissed.
Re: 1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You can also get 2 free servers a month from Amazon.com (1 Linux one windows). It's actually 750 hours each so could use more than one at a time if you turned them off afterword. http://aws.amazon.com/free/ Note: These free tiers are only available to new AWS customers, and are available for 12 months following your AWS sign-up date
I did. I got charged, I'm still trying to sort that out with Amazon.
Re: 1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6
#50Lol, 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 was an extremely satisfied Linode customer for several years. A few months ago I migrated to Digital Ocean to save money and for the SSD performance. I'm happy that I made the move. I get better performance for less money. Also, I have spun up and down a lot of different servers for testing purposes. It's fantastic to pay by the hour for servers so that testing a beefy server for a day or two costs very little.