Cloudatcost: 35$ one-time virtual servers

I upvoted this in hopes of seeing it get more comments, and hopefully someone who is known on HN will vouch for them, or at least have a discussion about the company behind this.

They have 10,000 servers at this price... so it sounds like a promotion to get eyeballs for a newly launched service.

And that is why I will pass over them, my business depends on stability of the infrastructure, and these promotional details are not where to look for stability.

On the other hand, this sounds great for personal usage.

Re: Cloudatcost: 35$ one-time virtual servers

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Post by tuananh » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 2:21 AM UTC

It's hard to believe anything like "lifetime package". The company's reputation is way too low for that.

Re: Cloudatcost: 35$ one-time virtual servers

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Post by flylib » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 2:23 AM UTC

there is 8 pages talking about it here but the forum is down so I can't see what the conclusion they came to was, only the first page

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GOrNxy8...

Re: Cloudatcost: 35$ one-time virtual servers

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Post by voltagex_ » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 2:27 AM UTC

It's not on LowEndBox, which is strange. I'm going to go in for the annual one at $12.

Re: Cloudatcost: 35$ one-time virtual servers

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Post by lxfontes » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 2:27 AM UTC

Op here: they do exist and the backing company is Fibernetics.ca (Canadian Clec based in Kitchener/Waterloo)

Their other lead project is Fongo - Dell Voice, which got a lot of attention last year.

The uplink is nothing close to digital ocean, but decent.

Disclaimer: I've worked for Fongo until a few months ago.

Re: Cloudatcost: 35$ one-time virtual servers

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Post by nl » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 2:27 AM UTC

This isn't as crazy as people seem to think.

Firstly, they have partnered with a telecom[1], which means they get bandwidth at vastly reduced rates.

Secondly, their prices are roughly 1/3 more than what you'd pay elsewhere for a year of hosting[2]. If they already have paid for infrastructure (which it says they have), selling off underutilized servers quickly like this isn't a bad way to get cash.

Thirdly, I'm sure they have done the math, and can guess how many of these VPSs will be basically unused. If they are already paying to keep the servers running, most of the extra VPSs have negligible influence on their costs.

I wouldn't rely on it for something you expect to be around for ever, but it's probably not an outright scam.

[1] http://www.fibernetics.ca/

[2] http://lowendbox.com/

Re: Cloudatcost: 35$ one-time virtual servers

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Post by leephillips » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 2:30 AM UTC

I just bought one. Seems to be legit. A couple of minutes after handing over my $35 I'm ssh'd into a Debian server with the specs that they claim. Even if they go away after a few months it's not a bad deal.