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SoftLayer London Promotion: $500 off first month service
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SoftLayer London Promotion: $500 off first month service

J1021J1021 Member

SoftLayer are offering $500 off first month service for any products in their London facility.

Promo code: 500LN

http://www.softlayer.com

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  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    Please, don't rent if you don't intent to own :/

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  • J1021J1021 Member

    netomx said: Please, don't rent if you don't intent to own :/

    Promotional code can be used with their cloud instances too.

  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith Member, Patron Provider

    so that just about covers the first weeks billing then :)

  • c0yc0y Member

    I want a $1 cloud instance and then $499 wired to me :-)

  • instatechinstatech Member
    edited July 2014

    What exactly they are offering in their London DC.Cloud or dedicated servers?

  • J1021J1021 Member

    instatech said: What exactly they are offering in their London DC.Cloud or dedicated servers?

    Both.

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  • Well i must say softlayer is expanding real fast.I have not any other datacenter with that much locations.They have locations in Asia,EU,USA.

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  • only accept cc, tried using pp but no luck

  • bigcatbigcat Member

    @instatech said:
    Well i must say softlayer is expanding real fast.I have not any other datacenter with that much locations.They have locations in Asia,EU,USA.

    Business development & marketing is the key. I've dealt with even better local provider.
    I'm not sure why, but management IT guy circle that I work with seems to be fond of Softlayer. Maybe because of "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" sentiment

  • Now that IBM owns it, $500 probably just about covers a 512MB VM.

  • jhjh Member

    Microlinux said: Now that IBM owns it, $500 probably just about covers a 512MB VM.

    Actually the VMs went down in price

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  • GIANT_CRABGIANT_CRAB Member
    edited July 2014

    Softlayer SG's network still sucks.

    I hope London's rain will destroy their DC.

  • emreemre Member, LIR

    xeon e31270 v3

    8GB RAM

    2x1TB sata hdd

    20TB bw/ 1Gbit port

    8ipv4 + /64 ipv6

    Centos 6.5

    499USD/month in London

    Nice~~

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  • @emre said:
    xeon e31270 v3

    8GB RAM

    2x1TB sata hdd

    20TB bw/ 1Gbit port

    8ipv4 + /64 ipv6

    Centos 6.5

    499USD/month in London

    Nice~~

    Complete ripoff.

  • FredQcFredQc Member
    edited July 2014
  • Why are they so expensive? That's like 10x the price OVH or Hetzner would charge.
    And then they add an operational fee of 6% in London to cover the costs. Who is doing their books, lol.

  • blackblack Member

    @Shigawire said:
    Why are they so expensive? That's like 10x the price OVH or Hetzner would charge.
    And then they add an operational fee of 6% in London to cover the costs. Who is doing their books, lol.

    It's not just the server with an internet connection they provide. It's everything else, like support, redundant network connections on each ever, etc. They cater to businesses, not really someone looking for a cheap server to play with.

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