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Yet another example of competition working out well for the consumer. Innovation, price drops, etc. Can you imagine a world where consumer broadband had the same level of competition? Sigh...a nerd can dream...
It is called Eastern Europe - 100Mb/s for 20 euro a month with static IP and no traffic limits. Also we have right now large fiber to the home deployments.
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It is called Eastern Europe - 100Mb/s for 20 euro a month with static IP and no traffic limits. Also we have right now large fiber to the home deployments.
100 mbps for 20 euros? That's quite a lot, for 28 euros I get 300 mbps outside of my country and gigabit inside.
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Really ? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831435.aspx Virtual PC supports live migration. Seems like an easy way to do maintenance on the hosts. Does azure use live migration ?
I don't think Azure has a live migration. In fact, out of Google Cloud Platform, AWS and Azure only GCP has live migration of the running VMs.
If users will favour GCE because of reduced downtime support due to the live migration support (or simply favour GCE because of they perceive it as a more advanced platform), then other providers will follow.
Right now it seems that it's all a price war, not yet a feature war. But prices can go down only to a point, then feature war will start showing it's effects, and it will be interesting.
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> Can you imagine a world where consumer broadband had the same level of competition? Sigh...a nerd can dream... Yes, in most European countries. :)
Well that's disappointing then. I wasn't particularly impressed with the service I got at my various hosts' homes in the UK. Is it really the case that the last mile physical infrastructure is considered common there so any provider can use it?
The UK "last mile" infrastructure is unbundled so you can get your DSL service through a wide variety of providers - but actual line speed upgrades and faults are still at the mercy of BT incompetence, and everyone has to pay them £15/month for "line rental" even if you don't want POTS.
I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't drastically reduce the price of their Windows instances. Microsoft is matching all of AWS prices, which means the Windows servers are more expensive than the Linux servers. Why not set your Windows server prices as the same as your Linux servers since you don't have to pay the licensing to yourself. This would make azure the easy choice for those running Windows servers. Maybe…
They do have to pay licensing, its money that goes from one business unit to another within the Microsoft Corp, thus to not destroy the Azure budget, they pass the license costs to you instead of eating it.
Yet another example of competition working out well for the consumer. Innovation, price drops, etc. Can you imagine a world where consumer broadband had the same level of competition? Sigh...a nerd can dream...
It is called Eastern Europe - 100Mb/s for 20 euro a month with static IP and no traffic limits. Also we have right now large fiber to the home deployments.
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Well that's disappointing then. I wasn't particularly impressed with the service I got at my various hosts' homes in the UK. Is it really the case that the last mile physical infrastructure is considered common there so any provider can use it?
The UK isn't really a "European" country in this regard; it still prefers inefficient private quasi-monopolies to properly functioning state services. The UK "last mile" infrastructure is unbundled so you can get your DSL service through a wide variety of providers - but actual line speed upgrades and faults are still at the mercy of BT incompetence, and everyone has to pay them £15/month for "line rental" even if yo…
You obviously aren't old enough to remember when BT was part of the state owned post office. It wasn't great.
Yet another example of competition working out well for the consumer. Innovation, price drops, etc. Can you imagine a world where consumer broadband had the same level of competition? Sigh...a nerd can dream...
It is called Eastern Europe - 100Mb/s for 20 euro a month with static IP and no traffic limits. Also we have right now large fiber to the home deployments.
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It gets even better than that if you're in an approved accelerator / incubator: you get $60,000 USD in hosting credits, at a rate of $5,000 a month. We're entirely hosted on Azure using their Linux VMs and have had a great experience with them so far.
Hmm, that doesn't really seem fair on those of us not going down that route