"What we really miss for all of those providers is some kind of transit map per location, where we can see what transit providers are connected in each location."
For OVH http://weathermap.ovh.net
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#32"What we really miss for all of those providers is some kind of transit map per location, where we can see what transit providers are connected in each location." For OVH http://weathermap.ovh.net
Ahh, great, now that I see it I think Online.net has something similar.
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#33I 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.
Yep, usually also looking for
* IPv6
* floating/elastic IPs
* API, wrapper libraries, CLI tools
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#34I'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.
Thanks for taking the time to respond, really appreciate it. You mentioned hourly billing, but the OVH plans you reviewed are monthly[0], and all the pricing you listed on the site is monthly.
We're trying to go in a different direction from hourly, and instead offer very deep discounts for annually. So customers can get 8GB RAM for $6.49/month ($77.99/year) and have stellar performance with a provisioning time of about 10 seconds.
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#35I 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.
Yep, usually also looking for * IPv6 * floating/elastic IPs * API, wrapper libraries, CLI tools
For me IPv6 is irrelevant, because in it's current state it's barely working. Most big providers don't care about their routes so I would disable IPv6 anyways to prevent problems.
I agree about additional IPs and API/CLI tools though.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Thanks for taking the time to respond, really appreciate it. You mentioned hourly billing, but the OVH plans you reviewed are monthly[0], and all the pricing you listed on the site is monthly. We're trying to go in a different direction from hourly, and instead offer very deep discounts for annually. So customers can get 8GB RAM for $6.49/month ($77.99/year) and have stellar performance with a provisioning time of ab…
OVH offers hourly and monthly billing. The hourly billing is a bit more expensive but it is there. The pricing is monthly to get a better overview and be able to compare it better.
I understand your direction and it makes sense, but please don't advertise in a post that is reviewing providers with a specific use case (hourly billing) that you don't offer. Thanks.
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#38What'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…
> 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.
OVH has openstack support in some regions and that is the current defacto non aws / Google / Azure cloud competitor.
And, all of the big providers have their own issues - cloud computing is hard, and no one has it 100% yet.
> Even if they were more reliable systems than they are now, the bigger they are the more they attract attacks on their core. Only the giants like Amazon and Google, or more professional (read: expensive) providers have the resources to deal with it.
While, yes they may not have the capacity themselves to swallow a large ddos, there is service providers who do, and any iaas worth there salt will have a contract with one or more of them.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a good idea anyways :)
Any good solutions out there to sync stuff out of a droplet?
I personally use rclone [0] to backup everything to a S3 bucket.
[0]: http://rclone.org
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#40After seeing positive Scaleway mentions here on HN several times I opened an account to test performance. Damn it was slow, and I had set my expectations very low. I can understand for a site that didn't need CPU-heavy performance (I intended to use it for a personal Nextcloud instance) but my main issue was with reboot time. Change any settings in the control panel? Reboot needed. Applied kernel updates and need to…
I don't have to restart my machine often. And it might depend on which server you used exactly, since they have different machines (I'm using the bare metal machines). But that said: I don't remember at all that the server shutting down took a long time. Might it be possible that your server was broken?