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High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by nik736 »

hackerboos wrote: post #11
ovi256 wrote: post #5

OVH.com is selling 2GB VMs for 2.99 Euros per month. No idea about over-provisioning or any comparison with Linode though.

OVH basically tell you not to use these for production applications. I have 3 that I use for as gitlab-runners and as a dokku development server.

The $3 VMs are different from the cloud instances. You get local storage with the $3 VMs which work great, while the cloud instances have some weird Ceph cluster that is making problems all the time. So the $3 VMs are way better than the regular, expensive cloud instances.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by trome »

bogdanu wrote: post #13
hackerboos wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OVH basically tell you not to use these for production applications. I have 3 that I use for as gitlab-runners and as a dokku development server.

I was planning to use one for a side project. Can you give a link where they say that? I have one for a few months and according to htop, the VM is up and running for over 90 days.

Sure, below is a link to some unhappy users posts. If you look on LowEndTalk, people commonly discuss how sub-10MB/s disk IO on the VPS SSD 1 plan is common, and many use these as cheap Tor relays, as OVH does not care what users do.

I'd rather something like ImpactVPS or Linode, as with either I know things will be decently managed, unlike OVH. Don't get me wrong, those VPSes make great dev boxes or Tor relays, they just have no performance or reliability guarantees AT ALL! Do not risk your business on them, spend a few minutes to find either a smaller provider with good management (generally at the same price point or lower), or pay up for Linode or AWS.

Link: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1470503

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by pjungwir »

Linode is my top choice for hosting, but lately I've been tinkering on a project that needs a lot of disk, and it's hard to find good options there. On AWS every dimension scales independently, but with Linode I can't buy disk without buying CPU and RAM too. When I had a similar need a few years ago, I wound up renting a dedicated server, where even the cheapest came with 2TB or so. I'd love to just stick with Linode, but I need an option to add disk!

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by Karunamon »

flaviuspopan wrote: post #18

I love seeing cloud providers offering better deals, the more the merrier! However, I still have yet to find a better deal than the one Scaleway offers. ~$3/mo for a dual-core, 2GB RAM, 50GB SSD host. They also support terraform, rancher, swarm, etc. Been using them for a few months and haven't had a single complaint.

I probably wouldn't host a blog there. Their ToS[1] has, among other things:

- A prohibition against the propagation of data, images or sounds that may constitute defamation, an insult, denigration, or an infringement of privacy, image rights, good morals, or public order

- Users are required to use decent and respectful language

- Users are reminded that they must update software without excessive delay when a security failing is noted by the user or the software publisher or Scaleway

This reads like: If you might offend anyone by the standards of the French, or might use strong language, or don't run the latest version of everything, this isn't the service for you.

On the positive side, they lack the litany of restricted services that most hosting companies I've seen provide, and I don't see any prohibitions against using your paid for resources to their maximum, so that's good.

US customers should note that all of their prices are in Euro, so -- for exchange rate shenanigans and currency exchange fees on most credit cards. There's no selector to show prices in USD.

[1]: https://www.scaleway.com/terms/

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by edko »

msbarnett wrote: post #16

Digital Ocean really needs to cut their prices at this point. There's no compelling reason to pay them 50% more for the same thing.

Rather than cut prices (I think $5 is low enough), I would prefer if they would beef up their specs. For $5, DO gives you only 512MB vs 1GB from Linode.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by msbarnett »

edko wrote: post #27
msbarnett wrote: post #16

Digital Ocean really needs to cut their prices at this point. There's no compelling reason to pay them 50% more for the same thing.

Rather than cut prices (I think $5 is low enough), I would prefer if they would beef up their specs. For $5, DO gives you only 512MB vs 1GB from Linode.

6-of-1, half a dozen of the other. Halving their prices on all current instances gives you the same specs at the same pricepoints.

I don't particularly care if they keep around a 512MB/$2.50 instance at that point.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by [deleted] »

pjungwir wrote: post #25

Linode is my top choice for hosting, but lately I've been tinkering on a project that needs a lot of disk, and it's hard to find good options there. On AWS every dimension scales independently, but with Linode I can't buy disk without buying CPU and RAM too. When I had a similar need a few years ago, I wound up renting a dedicated server, where even the cheapest came with 2TB or so. I'd love to just stick with Linode…

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Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by nik736 »

pjungwir wrote: post #25

Linode is my top choice for hosting, but lately I've been tinkering on a project that needs a lot of disk, and it's hard to find good options there. On AWS every dimension scales independently, but with Linode I can't buy disk without buying CPU and RAM too. When I had a similar need a few years ago, I wound up renting a dedicated server, where even the cheapest came with 2TB or so. I'd love to just stick with Linode…

"In the coming months we’ll be releasing into beta our new Linode Manager, RESTful API, and block storage service."

From the blog post you just commented on ;-)

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