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Which DC are they using in NY? Their test IP and file don't seem to work. Hopefully its not Buffalo
They're not in Buffalo. Which IP did you use? Their NY looking glass works fine for me:
http://lg.nyc.ramnode.com/
It was just an IP listed on their site, didn't actually click on any looking glass. Thanks!!
I forgot which DC they use but - for god's sake - it isn't ColoCrossing.
Telehouse Chelsea
NYC test IPs seem ok from here.
So what are the advantages for a Provider to move to adopt open stack if it is so terrible and delicate (will break easily) ? Just assuming conclusions based on the comments above. No actual research done from my end.
Speaking for us, we obviously don't think it's "terrible" or prone to breaking. The complexity and hit or miss documentation can be frustrating to deal with. But it's a really cool, flexible system once set up properly.
So "FlexibleSystem" is a 15% off coupon, recurring? Only for us, the good old LET crowd?
@Nick_A - NL soon?
Should be Thurs/Fri.
Post bench and cpuinfo.
My DA dev node: vroom vroom
That's all true, but Stan is talking about a decent VPS that isn't as high-powered but isn't oversold, has good uptime, and benefits from knowledgeable support by people who know what they're doing. (I'm in my third year with this 512 and I have never, ever had to submit a support ticket about anything.) The CPU isn't crazy fast, but performance is predictable and consistent. My little static site with 350k of photos on the front page loads in about 120 ms for viewers in the local Seattle area and that's good enough for me.
So from my experience, I'm not willing to join in here and piss on Stan from a great height, just for being a relatively smaller, lesser-known and more budget-oriented outfit. Also, I see that the faster NVME version of this is in stock, for $5/yr more. Personally I don't need it, because my Web server serves everything from RAM but YMMV.
Anyway, I just didn't want to let this fun-filled putdown, harmless as it is, be the last word said here about Stan's efforts. Go Stan.
So you are saying Ramnode is none of that? Sounds like it.
Nobody is, he made himself look a tit by jumping in with:
Which is pissing on a thread about another provider trying to suggest he offers better value. It is not always about $3 or $10.
Lee:
"So you are saying Ramnode is none of that? Sounds like it"
A few years ago I did have a VPS with Ramnode, before they had servers in Seattle. I had (and still have) no complaints at all about Ramnode. A few months ago I'd thought about adding a VPS there. But now with this cloud change, which I haven't entirely wrapped my head around, I think I'd like to find out more about it first before jumping in. As you can guess from that, I'm not yet quite as cloud-enabled and complexity-friendly as people who can spend more of their time absorbing this stuff, even though probably more services will shift more toward this as time goes on and I'll have to catch up some day.
It looks (and acts) basically like a normal VPS with the major added feature that you can destroy it and not be charged for the time it's gone.
It's like @donli said - normal VPS with hourly billing. VPS install/management is actually much simpler on the new system. You can make use of some advanced features, but you don't have to.
That sounds like Vultr, et al. Simply stopping my Vultr instance didn't reduce any of the charges. I had to destroy the thing entirely. I guess no one has yet thought that there might be a market for a cloud service that offers reduced charges when not in use, and doesn't require destroying it. Clearly, some things do still cost the provider the same when it's stopped (e.g. IPv4 address, disk space usage), but others (e.g. CPU usage, network bandwidth usage) go to zero.
Recently I discontinued my NearlyFreeSpeech shared account after many years, because I found myself not using it lately. But they're interesting in that they have a usage based pricing model that adds up several categories of costs. When my site wasn't being used, some costs continued but others stopped, which to me as a customer always seemed more reasonable than the "must-destroy" cloud pricing model.
You can take a snapshot and store it indefinitely for reduced cost.
The CloudStack looks cool, but less flexiable on billing, no coupon or so could be added... I'm stick with SolusVM now.
I've shilled Lunanode.com a number of times already, but I haven't found a better provider with the features they offer. You can shelve an instance, and you only pay for the IP ($1/month). And you pay for the storage ($0.03 per GB).
My favorite feature is volume (ceph cluster) backed root partitions. You can boot off a volume, which are HDD or SSD backed (see Toronto for SSD volumes). And you can take snapshots of volumes for free basically since I think it must be an incremental snapshot (full images cost money).
The Netherlands is up and running.
You beat me to it!
Netherlands are up!
Now you both seem fast, compared to me.
Added new Massive KVM options - $15/mo for 1TB HDD. https://ramnode.com/#pricing. Available in NYC/LA. ATL/SEA coming this week. NL maybe next week.
This is great.. What would hardware look like in NL (CPU, RAIDx ? ) ? Is it possible to get 2 IP's per one instance ?
Thanks! Hardware - same as our other regions
You can order a filtered IP for a second public IP if needed.
@Nick_A , thanks. $10 one looks great.. while I like @intovps routing to Cluj better.. if they do not introduce those storage addons soon I will probably order one in NL when it comes available
Ramnode's stable service provider does not need the complicated and cumbersome Openstack Cloud.
He doesn't seem to have Centos6.x, and the operation is complicated. I was defeated by it and gave up buying.
I just want to buy it very simply through whmcs and use it.
It seems that it is no longer possible to purchase products through whmcs?