After 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 didn't even get that far with Scaleway. Their lack of two-factor authentication is a major turn-off.
I'd be curious to see how the numbers from wholesaleinternet.net stack up - auto-provisioned bare metal hosting for the same (monthly) price as cloud VMs.
> Our datacenter is fed by redundant fiber feeds from Hurricane Electric, Cogent Communications, and the Kansas City Internet Exchange (KCIX).
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?
To start? Customer data exfiltration, credential compromise, mandatory kernels (security problems), system downtime, network issues, ddos, and unusual performance problems. They may have a couple lower cost options now, but you'll probably still pay out the nose to upgrade them as before.
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 was literally just about to launch a consumer facing app on Digital Ocean this month...was I being incredibly naive?
Off-topic. What's up with Frankfurt? 3 of 5 cloud companies compared here have Frankfurt listed as their European data center location.
Location of DE-CIX, primary european internet exchange (according to themselves the one with the largest throughput worldwide, but AFAIK that's disputed)
I'm glad someone included the two leading French hosting providers in their benchmark. I have ~10 servers hosted by both OVH and Online (not Scaleway yet) and I believe they do a very correct job for a terrific price. BTW: both have more expensive offerings if you need strongers SLAs. What I don't like with OVH's offering is that they have 3 different brands (OVH, SYS and KS) and you need 3 different accounts, contro…
I will second this. I have two of these very cheap VPSes from OVH mentioned in the article, one in France and one in Québec, and in my experience they have been very reliable and have good performance for their price. In my experience, for "hobbyist" use cases having more RAM is more important than having a 1 Gbps connection - most of the time your stuff will not be that popular to the outside world, but you might wa…
My experience as well. I often use the super inexpensive OVH VPSs and I have never had any problems. The price is amazing.
I am a big fun of DO. Their performance is consistent and their support is simply awesome. However I do find myself using Linode lately as I get double the memory for the same price. I hope DO follow and increase the memory on their nodes.
I sent them a message saying exactly that- I've moved all my machines to linode because the price for the speed (both memory and cpu) is much better. They responded back saying that they are competing on platform, not price.
I'd be curious to see how the numbers from wholesaleinternet.net stack up - auto-provisioned bare metal hosting for the same (monthly) price as cloud VMs.
> Our datacenter is fed by redundant fiber feeds from Hurricane Electric, Cogent Communications, and the Kansas City Internet Exchange (KCIX). Ouch.
Scroll down and you will see they peer with Google Fiber, Google Cache, CloudFlare, NetFlix, Yahoo, etc. and others.
I used them for a client about 18 months ago I think, no problems and could get continuous 80Mbps over many hours to/from the servers the client rented.
The article is very detailed and does a great job, but they don't mention DigitalOcean load balances.
Load balancers are a must have infrastructure puzzle piece these days. DO did a fantastic job on their lb offering and for $20 a month they are quite powerful (http and tcp) with configurable health checks and failover.