Brightbox launches new lower-cost cloud server tier
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Brightbox launches new lower-cost cloud server tier
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Re: Brightbox launches new lower-cost cloud server tier
#2(Full disclosure: I'm a former employee, still have personal servers as a customer.)
Awesome news, still find the service provides more than other UK/EU providers. (I don't use US providers personally mostly because of the added ping times.)
Having things like the cloud firewall & being able to migrate an IP from one server to another _instantly_ just makes life so much easier. Said services being cheaper is only going to make my wallet happier :-)
Re: Brightbox launches new lower-cost cloud server tier
#3http://bigv.io/
Cheaper, better, waaaay more flexible, entirely UK based (this might be a good/bad thing depending on where you are)
Re: Brightbox launches new lower-cost cloud server tier
#4http://bigv.io/ Cheaper, better, waaaay more flexible, entirely UK based (this might be a good/bad thing depending on where you are)
better and waaaay more flexible how? genuine question.
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#5http://bigv.io/ Cheaper, better, waaaay more flexible, entirely UK based (this might be a good/bad thing depending on where you are)
better and waaaay more flexible how? genuine question.
Bigger VMs (180Gb, 16 cores, 8 discs up to 16TiB storage), better basic VM spec, graded discs (guaranteed SATA, archive, SAS, SSD), much cheaper basic data included, live migration, integration with their dedicated servers, managed service, generally cheaper, been around years (as bytemark.co.uk), own DC, own Internet AS + network and peering, IPv6.
Ok and they use KVM instead of Xen with virtio drivers.
Paper about their systems: http://blog.bytemark.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Design...
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
better and waaaay more flexible how? genuine question.
Bigger VMs (180Gb, 16 cores, 8 discs up to 16TiB storage), better basic VM spec, graded discs (guaranteed SATA, archive, SAS, SSD), much cheaper basic data included, live migration, integration with their dedicated servers, managed service, generally cheaper, been around years (as bytemark.co.uk), own DC, own Internet AS + network and peering, IPv6. Ok and they use KVM instead of Xen with virtio drivers. Paper about…
I'm a fan of both companies and think Brightbox and Bytemark are probably the two best British providers in this space (and a bonus they're both northern! :-)) BigV is a far newer product though and BB also has many of the features you mention (IPv6 and 'been around years' for starters).
What I'm interested in though is KVM now generally considered better than Xen? When I last looked into it a few years ago, there wasn't much in it and KVM had some key disadvantages. Is KVM now distinctly better than Xen as I'm admittedly inferring from your comparison?
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
better and waaaay more flexible how? genuine question.
Bigger VMs (180Gb, 16 cores, 8 discs up to 16TiB storage), better basic VM spec, graded discs (guaranteed SATA, archive, SAS, SSD), much cheaper basic data included, live migration, integration with their dedicated servers, managed service, generally cheaper, been around years (as bytemark.co.uk), own DC, own Internet AS + network and peering, IPv6. Ok and they use KVM instead of Xen with virtio drivers. Paper about…
Brightbox also operates its own AS, has offered IPv6 from the beginning and uses KVM with virtio, not Xen for Brightbox Cloud.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
better and waaaay more flexible how? genuine question.
Bigger VMs (180Gb, 16 cores, 8 discs up to 16TiB storage), better basic VM spec, graded discs (guaranteed SATA, archive, SAS, SSD), much cheaper basic data included, live migration, integration with their dedicated servers, managed service, generally cheaper, been around years (as bytemark.co.uk), own DC, own Internet AS + network and peering, IPv6. Ok and they use KVM instead of Xen with virtio drivers. Paper about…
(Brightboxer here!) Brightbox also have IPv6, own AS+network+peering, been around years (2007), managed services, live migration, KVM (with virtio), and 15k SAS disks as standard.
Bytemark do indeed have more granular server specs, but Brightbox have snapshots, load balancing, distributed firewall, cloud ips, multiple zones (in geographically separate datacenters), ec2 compatibility.
Flexibility means different things to different users.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
better and waaaay more flexible how? genuine question.
Bigger VMs (180Gb, 16 cores, 8 discs up to 16TiB storage), better basic VM spec, graded discs (guaranteed SATA, archive, SAS, SSD), much cheaper basic data included, live migration, integration with their dedicated servers, managed service, generally cheaper, been around years (as bytemark.co.uk), own DC, own Internet AS + network and peering, IPv6. Ok and they use KVM instead of Xen with virtio drivers. Paper about…
I'm glad that both of these companies exist and offer globally competitive hosting, and are both local to myself.
Can either offer a service where you can create a new server setup with a RoR / Db setup from an image though?
I mostly use Heroku until I have users these days, but I do think there's maybe a trick in offering mirroring of the heroku functionality from the cmd line :)
Keep up the great work.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bigger VMs (180Gb, 16 cores, 8 discs up to 16TiB storage), better basic VM spec, graded discs (guaranteed SATA, archive, SAS, SSD), much cheaper basic data included, live migration, integration with their dedicated servers, managed service, generally cheaper, been around years (as bytemark.co.uk), own DC, own Internet AS + network and peering, IPv6. Ok and they use KVM instead of Xen with virtio drivers. Paper about…
I'm glad that both of these companies exist and offer globally competitive hosting, and are both local to myself. Can either offer a service where you can create a new server setup with a RoR / Db setup from an image though? I mostly use Heroku until I have users these days, but I do think there's maybe a trick in offering mirroring of the heroku functionality from the cmd line :) Keep up the great work.
It's fairly straightforward on the Brightbox cloud. You get the server to where you want it and then create a 'snapshot'.
You can then create new servers from that snapshot as required.