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How about Linode or BuyVM? I think they might support some of those features
I think you're going to have to create some of that yourself with any similarly priced company, honestly. Firewall you can handle internally or create a server that handles the traffic and passes it on to another server. Load balancing, HAProxy. Floating IPs, a little more difficult. We have those at DigitalOcean, at least. BuyVM has them too.
Proper load balancing (more than a single port, UDP, etc) is something I want to get in place sometime this year. I had plans to roll it out last year but i had a bunch of people crying that they wanted it to be more than just TCP, so I've had to change up what I had in mind.
We don't have hosted firewalls either, i've thought about it but not sure if it's something people would really use.
Yes on SSD's, floating/failover IP's, anycast, etc.
Francisco
I currently use Linode but I'm tired of them getting hacked, lying and/or using gag orders to delay the reveal for 6+ months.
BuyVM has 80-90% but as Franciso said, they are missing the LB capability. Since this is hobby stuff, I'm not sure being pissed at Linode is worth the time/energy to build my own LB setup.
Thanks tho.
Yeah, customers suck except for the fact they pay the bills. I think we all can agree on that.
If the truth is I have to build something, maybe I'll have time in 6-12 months.
Thanks but yeah, building things is exactly what I'm trying to avoid if at all possible.
LB's are something we're for sure working on.
If you're just LB'ing TCP, it's easy enough to just use haproxy/etc.
Hosted LB's are well on their way, it's mostly just a thing of designing it to support all the features we offer
'anycasted load balancers' starts to get a little mental.
Francisco
Yeah. I just was setup to manage failover via the Lindoe api and replacing it will take time since I can't prioritize it since this is just something I do for fun.
Fwiw, I think you'll probably win because it lets me play around with Anycast and it sounds like I'm correct that no one has it.
Would you say your 8GB OpenVZ plans were comparable to Linode in terms of performance? Or should I stick with your KVM option that costs about double Linode's prices?
Both work well, performance will be good on either product line. KVM's cost more but with the upgrades due users get ~dedicated CPU resources. Windows also isn't cheap :P
Francisco
I already maintain one dedicated Windows server in my life. That is one too many. :P
Lunanode rocks so much. Their Toronto location has worked out pretty well for my mainly US visitor website(s) but it would be cool if they had a nice U.S. location
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Yeah, I ended up going with them.
Nice, hope you like them
@iNap a bit late, but this is exactly what we offer in Atlanta: https://cc.delimiter.com/cart/cloud-resource-pool/
Although it's full HA with NVMe-accelerated Ceph storage, not local SSDs, but ridiculously fast.
Do you offer load balancing and firewalls with this? Is there an API available as well?
Yes, we have load balancing, router/firewall per customer network, there is an API including a late-beta grade AWS compatible layer.
Do you have any documentation available for this, with features? Also, do you have the availability zone concept for your VPS line, like AWS does?