We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent

This makes them very similar in price to Digital Ocean, even slightly cheaper. I wonder what the performance comparison would be between their equivalent tiers...

Their S3-compatible object storage is also quite appealing.

Being in North America though, I'd love if they had a data centre option here too.

Re: We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent

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Post by killercup » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 4:25 PM UTC

(The title currently just says '2,99 per month'. This should probably be changed "2.99€" instead, since a lot of people would expect HN to default to USD. Even I (living in Germany) was surprised it was in Euro.)

Re: We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent

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Post by JoshTriplett » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 4:30 PM UTC

bluejellybean wrote: post #3

2015 and they do not accept Discover cards.

2015 and people still use Discover cards. Why?

I can think of several good reasons to use American Express, despite it being somewhat less widely accepted. But Discover doesn't seem to have any obvious value over a MasterCard or Visa.

Re: We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent

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Post by zinxq » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 4:31 PM UTC

Storage and VPS systems are becoming (have become) commodity so quickly.

It will be interesting to see if this has any effect on open-source Saas businesses. I.e. "We'll host it for you or you can host it yourself for free" - for example, ghost.

Hosting it for me has definitely has its level of remove-hassle advantages, but if such software is easy to install and low maint, then it becomes notably cheaper to grab a VPS for it.

Re: We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent

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Post by actionscripted » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 4:34 PM UTC

killercup wrote: post #5

(The title currently just says '2,99 per month'. This should probably be changed "2.99€" instead, since a lot of people would expect HN to default to USD. Even I (living in Germany) was surprised it was in Euro.)

Agreed, though the tip-off to me that it wasn't USD was the comma. For anyone else like me 2.99€ is $3.36 USD.

Re: We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent

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Post by jl6 » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 4:38 PM UTC

lux wrote: post #4

This makes them very similar in price to Digital Ocean, even slightly cheaper. I wonder what the performance comparison would be between their equivalent tiers... Their S3-compatible object storage is also quite appealing. Being in North America though, I'd love if they had a data centre option here too.

Looks like you get a lot more memory than on the cheapest Digital Ocean droplet (2gb vs 512mb), and more storage too (50gb vs 20gb).

Re: We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent

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Post by lordlarm » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 4:41 PM UTC

Scaleway is a highly interesting player in the IaaS market as they're one of the few currently that are offering ARM based servers. Will we see more ARM servers the next couple of years from more vendors?