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Hyper.sh – Effortless Docker Hosting

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Post by rocky1138 » Mon, Nov 07, 2016, 3:08 PM UTC

Hyper.sh – Effortless Docker Hosting
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Post by iamdave » Mon, Nov 07, 2016, 3:31 PM UTC

%docker in production joke goes here%

No but really, this is a neat concept and the idea of micro instances is attractive for prototyping.

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Post by peregrine » Mon, Nov 07, 2016, 3:37 PM UTC

This is pretty cool. I would also love to see a "micro" instance with more cores but keep the lower memory.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 07, 2016, 3:40 PM UTC

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Post by stu2010 » Mon, Nov 07, 2016, 3:43 PM UTC

"All our servers are built on powerful Octo-Core machines" pretty much guarantees they're using some cheaper than E5 Xeons to save money, I'm wondering if it's something in the Xeon-D line. Has anyone specifically characterized what they're using? Could be Xeon D-1540s or similar, or they could also be selling 4-core hyperthreaded E3 Xeons as "8 core".

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Post by mmastrac » Mon, Nov 07, 2016, 3:43 PM UTC

The pricing on this is amazing. It's cheap enough to run a few services that I'd prefer to keep off my home machines.

How secure are these containers though? I always thought that Linux containers were not designed to be a guaranteed firewall between multiple tenants.

EDIT: They use their own technology to run docker on "bare metal hypervisors" - https://github.com/hyperhq/hyperd. That's actually pretty cool.

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Post by q3k » Mon, Nov 07, 2016, 3:43 PM UTC

> Amazing Hardware: All our servers are built on powerful Octo-Core machines [...]

Doesn't sound so amazing to me (or is just very low density compared to what's typically done with the current Xeon lineup).

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Post by scprodigy » Mon, Nov 07, 2016, 3:45 PM UTC

mmastrac wrote: post #6

The pricing on this is amazing. It's cheap enough to run a few services that I'd prefer to keep off my home machines. How secure are these containers though? I always thought that Linux containers were not designed to be a guaranteed firewall between multiple tenants. EDIT: They use their own technology to run docker on "bare metal hypervisors" - https://github.com/hyperhq/hyperd . That's actually pretty cool.

They don't use Linux container, they use hypervisor-based container (see: github.com/hyperhq/hyperd). Therefore it is VM-level isolation.

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Post by guptaneil » Mon, Nov 07, 2016, 3:46 PM UTC

This is exactly the service I've been looking for: a fast, cheap, and easy docker deployment service for my personal projects. It'll be interesting to see this grow, and more importantly, see how they handle security and privacy.

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Post by teaearlgraycold » Mon, Nov 07, 2016, 3:48 PM UTC

peregrine wrote: post #3

This is pretty cool. I would also love to see a "micro" instance with more cores but keep the lower memory.

That pretty much never happens in hosting. Because CPU cores are the more limited resource on these machines, you'd end up being charged the same if you opted for less RAM since they wouldn't be able to put too many other customers on the same box.