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What do you need?
but it's still fast™
@jhadley is in the UK: http://www.sysadmin.co.uk/vps-hosting/
Exactly what you and Prometeus (for example) already offer. I am a customer of yours with 2 VPS. I really do not see the big thing about Digital Ocean, to be honest. I mean, being able to take snapshots is fine, everything is -oh- so fancy and polished. But I see no reason (for me) to use them.
I sacrificed some $ and got a DO droplet for 5 bucks. My Ramnode VPS costs me < $5 with a coupon. And even though it is "just" SSD-cached, look at the comparison:
Ramnode 512 MB CVZ:
Digital Ocean 512 MB Droplet:
Okay. The Ramnode VPS that I have is not a KVM, but the price difference is not that big. And Ramnode (Prometeus as well) have a WAY more impressive IO and network speed.
@taronyu
PM me a spec
Ping from home (Slovakia) -> DigitalOcean = 109ms (hmmm... sounds like the machine is in the USA?)
Ping from my other VPS in NL -> DigitalOcean = 1ms (so it's not the USA after all...)
Looks like their routing is a bit strange or there's something else going on... Can anyone investigate / confirm?
I am not sure what you are trying to tell me, jhadley...
So why derail the thread?
If you are happy with RamNode than great, happy for you, move along now.
This thread is about DO and the great deal they have. Sure they are not perfect but still a good deal for some of us who need something in NY or NL.
Sorry I misread and have corrected my post.
Blah... ;-)
As if derailing would be uncommon on LET. AND: I am not even trying to derail something. At least that was not my intention. I just wondered whether I missed some great detail about DO that you could educate me about.
Oh, okay, so you don't mind next time RamNode posts an ad thread I can go in there and brag about how much I like Digital Ocean better?
Apples and oranges; this is a discussion not an offer.
You are free to do whatever you want to do. Really. I am not a Fanboy of Ramnode or others. And especially I am not up to cause trouble or to upset anyone. So I am out of here... ;-)
I don't see it either, it could be just handy to have something there sleeping (without wasting money) prepared to power it up anytime.
I don't compare it with prometeus, ramnode, etc... (reliable, stable hosts I pay and I want them online whole time) neither see it potential replacement for those hosts. It's different kind of a beast and I suspect that many LEB clients won't waste their $5 - $25 credit per ages. Especially those with plenty paid idle VPSs waiting to do something from them.
Possability to set up and then power off vps till it won't be needed (for playing, testing, developing, vpn-ing, etc... with various resources plan) without wasting money in meantime is this main difference I think.
I'm going to use it as an on-demand VPN, so when I need it I can just create a droplet from a snapshot of a vanilla OpenVPN install - it'll be interesting to see how far my $26.25 takes me.
Agree
Their API supports powering on/off which will be great for my VPN. I can setup a script that will shut it down when I go to sleep and turn it back on when I wake up every day.
https://www.digitalocean.com/api
You still get charged for the droplet even if it is shut down.
You will still be charged if you only power off the server, since they need to reserve the resources for you. In order for you to not be billed you have to destroy the server completely, but you can take a snapshot of the server prior to deleting it and this would be free.
I just deleted my server, I think it's pretty awesome that my 512mb server was up for 8 hours and I was only charged 6 cents!
I think this is the perfect remedy for CVD (Compulsive VPS Disorder).
The locations they have (especially NL) are cheaper than most LEB hosts. Plus you forget KVM, and unlimited bandwidth.
Didn't even realize that the saved droplets are basically free of charge. An excellent idea, thank you very much!
I admit: I have understood what makes this offer different in the meantime. So simply scratch my posts before. I was indeed comparing apples with oranges.
From my observations (by tracking the numbers on the homepage, note this is launched not live instances) they've literally deployed 2000+ of instances in the last 24 hours. I wonder how they are building nodes fast enough to cope with the demand.
They must have cut it close with the amount of nodes they already had prepared for the forecasted demand, that's for darn sure :P
@serverbear - They are running dual hexa core E5 nodes with 256GB RAM (each) and large 512GB SSD drives. They more than likely got an infusion of capital so it's not out of the question that they have at least 30~40 or more in their NY data center. I assume that their strategy is mass sales. I can see allot of Linode customers jumping ship. Lucky for the rest of us that customers need more than low cost hosting, so there is still money to be made in providing managed support.
I was wondering... Thanks!
Another differentiator -- are there any LEB providers with a 99.99% uptime SLA? I know some do have that sort of uptime, but the highest guarantee I've seen is 99.9%. For businesses, especially, that can be a notable difference (43 minutes of allowed downtime/month vs 4 minutes).