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ya, I saw the beta pricing is free. Time to go add 4tb of tinfoil hat pics to that droplet
If you did, you wouldn't be hosting motherfuckingwebsite.com on BlueHost.
I wish that was mine. To be that kind of genius...
Any idea how long this beta will go on for still? I'd hate to actually set something up with it now and have it go out of beta in a few weeks with a pricing that is likely going to be unappealing to me personally.
Summer is the goal. So I'd say by late September is a reasonable assumption. Keep in mind I'm speaking from publicly available information only to make that estimate.
How long does it take to receive "Early Access" after you submit your address for it? I submitted my address a few weeks ago, and have not yet received anything back from it.
No clearly defined schedule for it. As more testers are desired they might send out a batch.
It'll be useless. Wait to see the AUP.
Why? What unreasonable limitations are you thinking there will be? They currently make the default size 4TB. Why would they sell you up to that much space and not let you use it?
Care to expand on that?
This ain't shared web hosting. You get a raw device and can make whatever filesystems you want on it. If you want a bajillion inodes, you can. At least, assuming it works similarly to Vultr's, etc. Now you may run out of IOPS, but's different. Some big providers (EC2, Azuire) will sell you different tiers of storage with guaranteed IOPS - I don't think the midmarkets do.
How many separate disks can I mount on one VM? The reason I ask is that I'm putting together some in-house training on a vendor volume manager/filesystem at work. Rather than go through internal semantics of requesting VMs, etc. I was thinking of creating a lab at some place like DO, EC2, etc. But I'd want a dozen or so separate disks (to simulate RAID levels) not one big one.
According to the documentation on the Digital Ocean website: "Each drive may only be attached to a single Droplet. However, up to 7 drives may be attached to a Droplet at a time."
So, it looks like you can have 7 drives (per droplet).
Is there any rumors on pricing? Or are they going to get up hooked and then brandish a fat price tag on these?
Ive applied. The usefulness of this will largely depend on price, and the IOPS target.
Anyway well done DO for taking away Vultrs one currently interesting advantage.
I read somewhere from DO, it might have been on their other forum, that the pricing is going to be "very competitive". So, based on that, it will likely be at or below the other major ssd vpn providers that already have block storage.
I hope so, I would really love to implement this on my Droplet but it needs to stay within my (personal project) budget.
Here it is, I just found the forum I was referring to, see below. They say "quite competitive", not "very competitive".
http://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/where-can-i-find-pricing-information-for-block-storage-drives
I'm expecting somewhere well under the big name clouds (Amazon, Google, Microsoft) but obviously no where near as cheap as the lowest around.
Context for this is that absolutely no one has even given me a hint as to what the pricing might be. Granted, I haven't asked anyone involved in the project either. I'll probably learn a week before you guys do
It looks like Amazon is 10 cents, Google is 17 cents, Vultr is 10 cents
(Per GB per Month)
My opinion, it's going to be 8-10 cents for DO.
Of course, that means everyone who is using the beta and creating 4TB drives (4TB by default) are going to be in for a significant bill when it starts getting billed.
My question is, of course, so...will you do the whole grandfather thing again and everybody who gets it free in beta gets it free forever? (OK leaving now...)
Also as a note, might be nice to at least explain what block storage is, on the request access page, it's pretty sparse now
https://www.digitalocean.com/features/storage/
Cheers!
It looks like the Block Storage "coming soon / sign up for early access" advertisement has been removed from their home page today.
Previously, it was on the home page (before you login) with a blue banner across the top of the page.
@juf probably too many people applying for early access. I guess they dont want any more beta testers.
I applied on the first day, still havent got an invite
Send a pack of redbulls to @jarland, maybe he can help you
More here: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/block-storage-more-space-to-scale/
Still more expensive than Hubic.
You can't really mount a hubic drive tho (at least not easily) also this is SSD based so should be fast enough for databases as well.
3x the price of Amazon S3. I realize it's not apples-to-apples but still...
For the record, Vultr is the same price and I think they're overpriced, too.
That said, taking a 512 and adding a couple bucks for more storage is nice and I'll probably use it LOL
Yes you can and pretty easily.
Amazon EBS ssd is about the same price $0.1 per gb/month but pay for IO operations as well.
overpriced