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[UK] UKCloud Launch/Beta Offers

jhjh Member
edited December 2011 in Offers

Hi Everyone!

Continuing on from my last thread, we have now released UKCloud and are looking for people to help beta and stress test the new platform.

The platform is running a fully redundant hardware SAN setup with all SAS 15K disks and dual E5620 processors across the hypervisors. The entire platform is Xen-based and managed by OnApp. More information, including speed test files etc., is of course on the website but I wanted to emphasise what's really special about this offer, our unique "Zero Downtime or Zero Invoice" guarantee.

Essentially this is a way to pick up a high-end cloud server at a reduced price. The specs are fairly low but if you need something that's powerful and reliable then this is for you.

So here are the specs (increased slightly from the LEB post)...
3GB SAS 15K SAN Disk
128MB RAM
100GB Bandwidth
£3.75/month (+VAT where applicable)

If you have any questions just reply to this thread, email, telephone or live chat us. Also to address a past concern about ticket response times, a new member of staff, Dan Smith has just joined our team and response times have already come down.

Order Link

Please remember that we are beta testing at the moment, so it's important to keep a backup of your data.

Comments

  • NickMNickM Member

    Hourly pricing? Link to your management API docs? How fast can a new VM be created?

  • jhjh Member

    Hi Nick,

    Accounts are paid monthly in advance (it's only £3.75!)

    It's the standard OnApp API. Documentation is on their website.

    Setup is currently a manual process but it should be fairly quick.

  • TaylorTaylor Member
    edited December 2011

    HI,

    Are old qualityserver's accounts still active? Or would I have to create a new one?

  • jhjh Member

    They're still active :)

  • TaylorTaylor Member
    edited December 2011

    @jtodd Hmm, I cant login with my old info, Nor cant I get my password. It just says "The data entered could not be matched to an active account" But I know its the right email as I found old invoices on that account.

  • jhjh Member

    Taylor,

    Could you get me on Live Chat? I'll get this sorted for you.

  • TaylorTaylor Member

    I will jump on now.

  • tuxtux Member
    edited December 2011
    jtodd said in email:
    Your username is your previously registered WHMCS email address. Your password will need to be reset using the password lost form.
  • NickMNickM Member

    Accounts are paid monthly in advance (it's only £3.75!)
    It's the standard OnApp API. Documentation is on their website.
    Setup is currently a manual process but it should be fairly quick.

    So, in other words, it's not actually a cloud, you're just using "cloud" as a buzzword. Gotcha.

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  • jhjh Member

    Nick

    I don't think that's a fair statement at all. Cloud isn't defined by hourly billing, it's defined by the technology behind the service.

  • yomeroyomero Member

    Again the "cloud" discuss...

    Thanked by 1Mon5t3r
  • jhjh Member

    Even if we can't agree on the usage of the word 'cloud' can we agree this is a high availability and powerful VPS? I'd be happy with that ;)

  • NickMNickM Member

    Sure :)

  • Mon5t3rMon5t3r Member

    @yomero said: Again the "cloud" discuss...

    time to put "cloud" definition in LowEndWiki?

  • drmikedrmike Member

    @Mon5t3r said: time to put "cloud" definition in LowEndWiki?

    Can you say edit war? I knew you could.

  • ztecztec Member

    @jtodd said: 3GB SAS 15K SAN Disk

    128MB RAM
    100GB Bandwidth
    £3.75/month (+VAT where applicable)

    I was thinking about hosting my site with you once this would be released, but I would need 1 GB of RAM with around 200-300GB of bandwidth. on this rate I can just as easily keep my dedicated server to host this one site.

  • jhjh Member

    Ztec,

    If you order before the official launch, we can give you 20% off which would take the price down somewhat.

    Other than that, despite the likely performance benefits of our cloud system, I can try and work with you on the price. How much are you paying to whom and for what at the moment?

  • titanicsaledtitanicsaled Member

    This has to be one of the most interesting offers on LEB/LET!

    The only thing that holds me back is the price because i'm only 16 and can't afford it. But I understand the reason for it being expensive because otherwise you'd be making a loss paying for equipment like that. I'm still really glad that a top quality service is being offered for a LEB price though.

    Would you expect websites to load quicker and be more reliable than on shared hosting with this offer?

    Thanks

    (I'm Rhys Streefland on the LEB comments btw)

  • jhjh Member

    Hi

    Yes this is definitely faster than the majority of shared hosting!

    James

  • ztecztec Member

    Dedicated CPU
    1536MHz

    Does this really mean I only have access to 1536MHz?

  • jhjh Member

    Hi

    No, with config 4 you get access to all 16 logical cores.

  • jhjh Member

    A few benchmarks (although they were run on a higher plan as Geekbench needs more than 128MB):

    Geekbench: http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/527003

    DD:

    [root@test3 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=16k count=64k conv=fdatasync
65536+0 records in
65536+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.23337 seconds, 332 MB/s

    Cachefly:

    root@tes5:~# wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2011-12-09 16:37:46--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: “100mb.test”

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 59.8M/s   in 1.7s    

2011-12-09 16:37:48 (59.8 MB/s) - “100mb.test” saved [104857600/104857600]
  • TaylorTaylor Member

    Few from mine

    DD

    [root@1133 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=16k count=64k conv=fdatasync
    65536+0 records in
    65536+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.46813 seconds, 310 MB/s

    Cachefly

    [root@1133 ~]# wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    --2011-12-10 14:41:13-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
    Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
    Saving to: `100mb.test'

    100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 20.2M/s in 5.1s

    2011-12-10 14:41:18 (19.8 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]

    Thanked by 1jh
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