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Re: Show HN: Mediapig – Simple, affordable VPS hosting

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Post by philgourley »

Hi HN,

After some early feedback here a few weeks ago we're now ready to put our new product under 'Show HN'.

Starting earlier this year my co-founder and I wanted to create a product that approached VPS differently. We wanted something we'd be happy to use. A service that would provide a real use, away from the terminal window. While our ideas extend much further than our initial product launch we're excited to be able to open the doors to our first customers.

Our first round of feedback was incredibly helpful and as such we've been able to drastically improve our processes. I wanted to approach HN once again for a new round of critique, discussion and brainstorming.

If you're interested in any new features or improvements over the coming months. You can follow us on twitter at @MediaPigHost.

As a token of thanks for our previous and any future critique HackerNews readers / users can now use this 20% discount code (HCK20) on any order.

Re: Show HN: Mediapig – Simple, affordable VPS hosting

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Post by AdamGibbins »

philgourley wrote: post #2

Hi HN, After some early feedback here a few weeks ago we're now ready to put our new product under 'Show HN'. Starting earlier this year my co-founder and I wanted to create a product that approached VPS differently. We wanted something we'd be happy to use. A service that would provide a real use, away from the terminal window. While our ideas extend much further than our initial product launch we're excited to be a…

It's not clear to me how this differs from Digital Ocean, other than being (minimally) more expensive. Don't get me wrong, competition is good, and I'm always on the lookout for more hosts (I run a distributed (S|P)aaS, I want as many providers as possible). But a comparison of some description could be useful.

Re: Show HN: Mediapig – Simple, affordable VPS hosting

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Post by dotBen »

philgourley wrote: post #2

Hi HN, After some early feedback here a few weeks ago we're now ready to put our new product under 'Show HN'. Starting earlier this year my co-founder and I wanted to create a product that approached VPS differently. We wanted something we'd be happy to use. A service that would provide a real use, away from the terminal window. While our ideas extend much further than our initial product launch we're excited to be a…

I guess my main question would be - what's your differentiator over DO?

Re: Show HN: Mediapig – Simple, affordable VPS hosting

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Post by mappu »

philgourley wrote: post #2

Hi HN, After some early feedback here a few weeks ago we're now ready to put our new product under 'Show HN'. Starting earlier this year my co-founder and I wanted to create a product that approached VPS differently. We wanted something we'd be happy to use. A service that would provide a real use, away from the terminal window. While our ideas extend much further than our initial product launch we're excited to be a…

Nice!

Fedora 21's out, maybe add it to your templates.

Re: Show HN: Mediapig – Simple, affordable VPS hosting

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Post by mappu »

AdamGibbins wrote: post #3
philgourley wrote: post #2

Hi HN, After some early feedback here a few weeks ago we're now ready to put our new product under 'Show HN'. Starting earlier this year my co-founder and I wanted to create a product that approached VPS differently. We wanted something we'd be happy to use. A service that would provide a real use, away from the terminal window. While our ideas extend much further than our initial product launch we're excited to be a…

It's not clear to me how this differs from Digital Ocean, other than being (minimally) more expensive. Don't get me wrong, competition is good, and I'm always on the lookout for more hosts (I run a distributed (S|P)aaS, I want as many providers as possible). But a comparison of some description could be useful.

I'm the opposite - i have VPSes spread across a dozen or so countries, and i can't take advantage of any of the providers' differences because it's so much more important to have a uniform stack across all my hosts.

(free backups! free ftp space! free database hosting! custom control panel with a totally different api! etc - all pretty useless if you also have to architect for hosts without them)

On a side note, i can't use DO because they don't allow multiple IP addresses per VM.

Re: Show HN: Mediapig – Simple, affordable VPS hosting

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Post by stevekemp »

You provide root-logins for virtual machines, which sounds nice. Cheapest seems to be £6 a month for 512Mb and small disk space which isn't excessive, but doesn't mention VAT.

Do you provide IPv6? Can users run their own kernels, or are these externally provided? Do you provide access to the serial console, or VNC, if the user makes a firewalling mistake? Where are your machines hosted, and do you own them or merely resell? Can users configure custom reverse DNS for their IPs?

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