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Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by stadeschuldt » Thu, May 21, 2015, 3:39 PM UTC

brianwawok wrote: post #6

Digital Ocean - I only want to build off base Linux VM, I do not want to be locked into S3 + SQS + ... - Price is right for young startups - Speed is nice

DO is really nice. I use a little droplet myself and for the given price of 5-10 USD/month it is a great value.

Once you want something more I wonder if there are better options. Take there 320 USD/month plan. You get 32GB memory, 12 CoreProcessor, 320GB SSD disk and 7TB transfer. If I take a fixed price server at Hetzner I get 128 GB memory, 12 CoreProcessors, 2x240 GB SSD disk and 50TB transfer. Even the smaller machines are much beefier than what DO has to offer.

Once I am running a business 139 EUR {~155 USD} per month should both be fine.

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by denzil_correa » Thu, May 21, 2015, 3:41 PM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #15

ic-junk wrote: post #13

Microsoft Azure + Admin portal is good + Git Deploy to "Websites" is slick with no setup (builds binaries) + NodeJS / C# + Azure Integration in Visual Studio + Aggressive pricing The other reason is there are other services that I can use if I don't want to build my own.

Are you posting exactly the same comment multiple times with slightly different wording and a new user account each time? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9583236

I think the user just copy-pasted the linked comment. The linked comment account is quite old - 2487 days.

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by mosburger » Thu, May 21, 2015, 3:45 PM UTC

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #11

Linode. Support is great, service is great, pricing is good, and seems less "cowboyish" than Digital Ocean and others.

Yeah, using Linode as well. Surprised it isn't more popular TBH.

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by sfilipov » Thu, May 21, 2015, 3:45 PM UTC

blfr wrote: post #14

I use RunAbove[1] usually. Mostly because it's nearby (low latency), based on OpenStack (opensource and all the tools works ootb), and inexpensive. [1] https://www.runabove.com/

Looks too cheap. For how long have you used them and is all your experience positive. Their $/GB RAM is more than twice cheaper than DigitalOcean which are already quite cheap (compared to AWS and the like). Apparent downside of RunAbove is that the ration of cores to memory is lower.

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by fraXis » Thu, May 21, 2015, 3:46 PM UTC

geori wrote: post #5

Rackspace - pricing and offerings are similar to AWS - they answer the phone when you have problems

Their support is first rate and the #1 reason I won't change to another provider. There is nothing better than opening a chat window and having someone who is knowledgeable respond and who can get the problem fixed right away. To me that is worth the premium I pay for using Rackspace over a service like Azure or AWS.

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by snehesht » Thu, May 21, 2015, 3:46 PM UTC

[+] Digital Ocean

    Pros 1. Inexpensive, Pay as you go
         2. automated deployment
    Cons 1. Capped Network I/O

[+] Azure

    Pros 1. Cheap CDN, all-in-one cloud solutions
         2. Pay as you go
    Cons 1. Expensive VM's (0.6gb $13)

[3] RunAbove

    Pros 1. Inexpensive
    Cons 1. Not mature yet, they changed their pricing twice already

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by gmac » Thu, May 21, 2015, 3:47 PM UTC

Historically, Linode. Good performance, and decent value.

More recently, Heroku. Expensive, but I love being able to leave the sysadmin to someone else.

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by 3pt14159 » Thu, May 21, 2015, 3:47 PM UTC

brianwawok wrote: post #6

Digital Ocean - I only want to build off base Linux VM, I do not want to be locked into S3 + SQS + ... - Price is right for young startups - Speed is nice

I just wish there was a single VM that wasn't SSD backed. I write web crawlers sometimes and I usually only have to parse the HTML / JS once into JSON or SQL, but I like to keep the data backed up just in case I need to re-parse it later, or to see the changes between crawls. It's completely impossible for me to even fit it on their $640 / month box. But I love Digital Ocean for everything else.

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by cannikin » Thu, May 21, 2015, 3:47 PM UTC

brianwawok wrote: post #6

Digital Ocean - I only want to build off base Linux VM, I do not want to be locked into S3 + SQS + ... - Price is right for young startups - Speed is nice

I want to love Digital Ocean but is there any talk about providing load balancers? It seems like as soon as you want to scale beyond one server you're stuck rolling your own with something like HA Proxy, but you've still got a single point of failure. I guess you have that with a hardware load balancer as well, but at least those things are specifically built to be available all of the time, versus just a piece of software you're running on yet another VM.

Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?

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Post by rsync » Thu, May 21, 2015, 3:49 PM UTC

I have provided my own cloud, in the form of a 1U server, since 1998. I run my (very tiny) website there as well as my own mailserver, and I read email over SSH using (al)pine.

Backups offsite go to the obvious place :)

This setup might not be that interesting, but I think it's worth noting that a cloud computing paradigm/model has functioned well for 16 years now with no significant changes. I have not had data on my own personal computers for that entire 16 years - all data has been in the "cloud".

I think a decent goal is to be a peer on the network. I think a good step in that direction is to have your own server, with fixed IP, on the network. You can build quite a bit on that.