Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway • Hacker News Board

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by nik736 » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 8:46 PM UTC

captn3m0 wrote: post #8

nik736 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone on Reddit reported the same, I am not really sure what causes it, since it looks good on my end (server), maybe an issue with Firefox itself?

This thread on Qualys forums might be helpful: https://community.qualys.com/thread/16055

Thanks, will look into it :)

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by darkhorn » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 9:01 PM UTC

ranit wrote: post #4

Off-topic. What's up with Frankfurt? 3 of 5 cloud companies compared here have Frankfurt listed as their European data center location.

The heart of € is here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Central_Bank

International airport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Airport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt

International finacial center. Like second financial center of Europe after London.

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by simplehuman » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 9:09 PM UTC

I love DO but they deleted all my backups and servers because of a billing problem with just 15 day notice. Ever since I make sure to do backups outside DO.

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by azinman2 » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 9:09 PM UTC

peterwwillis wrote: post #10

What's the target market for this "showdown" ? Hopefully not an online business, as all of these providers are the cloud hosting equivalent of shared servers from the early 00's. I've used DO and Linode and both have serious reliability problems that you have to engineer around yourself, and I can't imagine the other providers are any more robust. Linode was too pricy for what they provided back when I tried them, to…

I've never had problems with linode... yes there are the occasional hardware problems that require restarts, but certainly better than AWS in uptime. For a while my VMs were going on a year+ of uptime. What issues did you see?

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by matthewking » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 9:10 PM UTC

superasn wrote: post #14

I think you should also add another table for hosting services that offer load-balancing. I read recently that Digital Ocean added that but not sure about the others. It is one of the reason why we're still on AWS.

Linode have a load balancer: https://www.linode.com/nodebalancers

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by nik736 » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 9:12 PM UTC

simplehuman wrote: post #23

I love DO but they deleted all my backups and servers because of a billing problem with just 15 day notice. Ever since I make sure to do backups outside DO.

That's a good idea anyways :)

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by XERQ » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 9:16 PM UTC

I'm the founder of SSD Nodes, Inc., which is a bootstrapped SSD-based hosting provider for startups that I've been working on since 2011. Some of our clients have posted benchmarks showing great performance, such as 800MB/s+ throughput and 292K IOPS: https://lowendbox.com/blog/ssdnodes-high-ram-ssd-vps-startin...

Direct link to the benchmark: https://serverscope.io/trials/lrAw

Special pricing for startups: https://www.ssdnodes.com/startup-specials/

/shameless plug

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by darkhorn » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 9:19 PM UTC

ranit wrote: post #6

detaro wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Location of DE-CIX, primary european internet exchange (according to themselves the one with the largest throughput worldwide, but AFAIK that's disputed)

Thanks. This explains.

And why european primary internet exchange point is here? Because this city is an international financial center https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798598 I've been there. Men and women in suits leaving work at 8 pm. Heartquaters of some big German banks etc. International buisness center.

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by jaequery » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 9:23 PM UTC

All these benchmarks seems to fail in the regards that whenever they spin up a VM, the performance will vary hugely depending on the host machine's hardware and capacity. If they want to do it right, they need to spin up atleast 100's of them by regions, at every single hour, and then maybe, just maybe, you can get some kind of an accurate measurement.

Re: Cloud Hosting Showdown: DO vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway

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Post by nik736 » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 9:25 PM UTC

XERQ wrote: post #27

I'm the founder of SSD Nodes, Inc., which is a bootstrapped SSD-based hosting provider for startups that I've been working on since 2011. Some of our clients have posted benchmarks showing great performance, such as 800MB/s+ throughput and 292K IOPS: https://lowendbox.com/blog/ssdnodes-high-ram-ssd-vps-startin... Direct link to the benchmark: https://serverscope.io/trials/lrAw Special pricing for startups: https://ww…

If I would be able to downvote you, I would. My benchmark/review is about hourly billing providers where I am able to spin up a server within a minute, which is not the case for your company. You are simply one of the 10000 companies that offer regular Virtual Private Servers.