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

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Post by philgourley »

stevekemp wrote: post #7

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…

Hi Steve - Thanks for your questions! We're going to update our site to reflect some of these answers but I wanted to answer you directly. I'm pleased to say that there are no restrictions for users to run their own kernels. We also do provide access to a remote console access via HTML5 Canvas. That's available in your account immediately after purchase. Currently our machines are owned by Hivelocity but we do have around the clock support with them. And we do allow users to configure custom reverse DNS for their IPs.

We really appreciate the comments and questions!

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

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Post by stevekemp »

philgourley wrote: post #11
stevekemp wrote: post #7

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…

Hi Steve - Thanks for your questions! We're going to update our site to reflect some of these answers but I wanted to answer you directly. I'm pleased to say that there are no restrictions for users to run their own kernels. We also do provide access to a remote console access via HTML5 Canvas. That's available in your account immediately after purchase. Currently our machines are owned by Hivelocity but we do have a…

Good answers, thanks.

The obvious omission was the lack of reply about IPv6 support. Do your guests get IPv6 access by default, or can it be added if not?

PS. You might want to update your SSL configuration to avoid the POODLE-attack, and add perfect forward secrecy too.

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

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Post by philgourley »

etcet wrote: post #9

Where is your DC located? Is that HDD space or SSD disk space? What will I be relying on for my storage and can you back it up? What virtualization tech do you use? Can you give me a months credit free? :)

Hi etcet - Thanks for your questions!

Our DC is located in Tampa, Florida. We'll be looking at expansion to further regions as growth continues. Our disk space is using RAID 10 SATA and use KVM Virtualisation and I'm pleased to say that we can provide backups. At the minute these need to be individually requested but we want to automate this in an upcoming release.

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

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Post by philgourley »

stevekemp wrote: post #12
philgourley wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Steve - Thanks for your questions! We're going to update our site to reflect some of these answers but I wanted to answer you directly. I'm pleased to say that there are no restrictions for users to run their own kernels. We also do provide access to a remote console access via HTML5 Canvas. That's available in your account immediately after purchase. Currently our machines are owned by Hivelocity but we do have a…

Good answers, thanks. The obvious omission was the lack of reply about IPv6 support. Do your guests get IPv6 access by default, or can it be added if not? PS. You might want to update your SSL configuration to avoid the POODLE-attack, and add perfect forward secrecy too.

Sorry Steve, I missed out the detail on this. At the minute we have not implemented IPv6. All of our kit is IPv6 ready and we are looking to go ahead with this very soon! Thanks again!

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

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Post by philgourley »

mappu wrote: post #5
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.

Thanks mappu!

We will be providing regularly updated templates so we can get you using Fedora 21 as soon as possible.

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

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Post by virmundi »

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.

One point of difference is that DO and Linode both have fixed SSD sizes. This company allows you to mix and match CPU, disk and RAM. Neither to the former allow that (at least not yet).

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

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Post by AdamGibbins »

virmundi wrote: post #16
AdamGibbins wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

One point of difference is that DO and Linode both have fixed SSD sizes. This company allows you to mix and match CPU, disk and RAM. Neither to the former allow that (at least not yet).

That's not true with Linode, you can add additional disk, memory and transfer under the extra's menu once you've purchased a slot. They'll migrate you as required.

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

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Post by hejuehdh »

I can't quite understand why this is a UK company, apparently registered in England and Wales, but yet the data center is in the US. The main reason I'd go for a UK company over a US one is if the support matched my hours, but with a 24 hour SLA response time, it's not particular great. That mixed with an overseas DC makes it a strange choice for UK customers, I can't see it working out favourably for the company
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