There are also these guys - Packet: https://www.packet.net/ They have a lots of what you need from "cloud", bare metal servers and very competitive prices (even comparing to hetzner)
EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
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Re: EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
#42Well, that almost makes up for our price increases over the last few months thanks to the worse GBP/USD exchange rates...
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
OVH is another decent host at similar prices. They have a larger range of servers and more datacenters, but are slightly more expensive. But they also offer renting older servers at kimsufi (similar to Hetzner's server bidding).
'Friends dont let friends use OVH'. Just google OVH and how horrible they are, every few months they have some gigantic filure - last time I've heard it was taking people money and not delivering servers for MONTHS.
Same as all replies. 3 years using OVH and not a single regret. Don't confuse dedicated ovh servers with their sister brands kimsufi and soyoustart, which has less uptime guarantees. Also OVH VMs suck, from my experience. But their dedicated server line is completely reliable. I use T3 servers and will start testing T4 servers (everything redundant) next few months.
Re: EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
#44Arggg, does not apply to west coast instances (us-west-1 and us-west-2).
Asking as an ignorant foreigner: Does anyone know what makes us-west more expensive than us-east? Is it just land or electricity prices or something like that?
Our Amazon rep tells us it's all about the cost of electricity.
Re: EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
#45Software for bare metal is catching up - you can buy couple of dedicated servers, install something like Kubernetes and will be shaking your head in disbelief how much you over paid for AWS.
'til your RAID array fails...
Re: EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Asking as an ignorant foreigner: Does anyone know what makes us-west more expensive than us-east? Is it just land or electricity prices or something like that?
Our Amazon rep tells us it's all about the cost of electricity.
11c/kWh in bay area, 6c/kWh in Oregon and Nevada. Old data here but salient: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/10/27/141766341/the-p...
Re: EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
#47Software for bare metal is catching up - you can buy couple of dedicated servers, install something like Kubernetes and will be shaking your head in disbelief how much you over paid for AWS.
AWS is not a virtual machine company. Virtual machines are just one of its offering. At AWS you must architect your software to use other AWS services as much as possible, and spin up minimum count of virtual machines, only when you really need it. Only in that way you pay really what you use and in most cases you will see that the final cost is cheaper than any other infrastructure.
This applies to the most of companies at small and medium scale. If you are at huge scale it might not apply to you.
Re: EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
'Friends dont let friends use OVH'. Just google OVH and how horrible they are, every few months they have some gigantic filure - last time I've heard it was taking people money and not delivering servers for MONTHS.
'Friends don't confuse friends with anecdotal evidence'. My anecdotal evidence is that I am a satisfied customer. Great prices, good customer service.
That would be anecdotal if it wouldn't happened to me twice. I won't ever use them again, nor recommend them to anyone, unless they're masochists in nature ;)
Re: EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
#49Arggg, does not apply to west coast instances (us-west-1 and us-west-2).
I think it does -- "Price cuts apply across all AWS Regions."
The regions listed were just examples. Check back Dec 1.
Re: EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
#50Software for bare metal is catching up - you can buy couple of dedicated servers, install something like Kubernetes and will be shaking your head in disbelief how much you over paid for AWS.
>you can buy couple of dedicated servers You can rent them too, like here : https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/ (not affiliated, would like to know of other decent hosts too) - I think this is the best of both worlds (don't need to deal with HW, getting bare mettal perf and reasonable prices)
You cannot really compare cloud providers to classic bare metal providers like Hetzner.
FWIW we're in the middle of going 100 % AWS after having used a dual setup with Hetzner for base load and AWS for dynamic load. Using spot instances for base load and autoscaling groups for dynamic load proved to be competitive in machine cost with Hetzner.
Plus there's a lot less management overhead with AWS on our scale (50+ machines). And the security of VPC and IAM cannot be replicated on Hetzner. Plus as always, it's the integration of all AWS services that's hard to beat. And we really need to be multi-region anyways (5 regions and counting).