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Amazon EC2 / Linode alternatives?
elwebmaster
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Is there a (cheaper) alternative to Amazon EC2 / Linode which satisfies these conditions:
1) VMs can be created / deleted / cloned / stopped / started through an API
2) Docker is supported in the VM (rules out OVZ based services)
3) x86 architecture
Currently I am using dedis which I manage (cheapest solution). I am trying to figure out the cost of a contingency plan (i.e. if managing becomes too demanding). The only feasible option I have found is Scaleway (3 euros/month for 2GB KVM). I want to know what (if) other options are available.
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As you said, you got scaleway, but personaly I prefer US located VPS, since my visitors are from US.
If to you it doesnt matter go with scaleway (online.net).
Otherwise I recommend you either DigitalOcean or Vultr.
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Thank you. Vultr is actually more expensive than Linode, even more expensive than EC2 actually (for 2GB instance). I see OVH also has an API for their Cloud KVM so that would be another one to consider.
You cant go wrong with OVH, but since the Public Cloud starts at 28$ p/month I didnt mention them
Dont forget, OVH princing for p/hour is the DOUBLE. so 28$ x 2 = 56$.
Yes, you are right, I was mislead by the Cloud VPS SSD pricing which doesn't support any of the flexibility features I was looking for.
There is also iwStack, I just remembered about them. Very flexible offers as well.
OVH VPS-SSD plans were available hourly through their cloud service. I don't see them on the splash pages now, but they might still be there on the order pages.
Google is cheap with their preemptible instances if your computing tasks only run for a few hours. Free inbound, expensive outbound.
Azure does Linux VMs - really any kind of VM. More or less same prices as Amazon but if you're already in that ballpark, worth a look. I think they have a Docker PaaS thing to but I haven't looked.
Otherwise I think all the AWSes and near-AWSes have been mentioned: AWS, Azure, Google (the big 3), DO/Vultr/Linode (the next tier). OVH somewhere in there. There are other PaaSy players: Heroku, OpenShift...there are probably 10,000 more. One of those might be Docker friendly.
And of course there's lots of KVM hosts out there...check the offers...
You failed to say check the offers section.. WHT style
iwStack is very affordable. Scaleway is cheap if you don't mind the slow Atoms. Quadranet is not bad if you need to be in the US. Don't forget Lunanode; excellent service, they know what they're doing.
And if your software stack can handle it, AWS spot instances or Google pre-emptible as mentioned above are options to consider.
mnx.io has hourly billing but I don't see anything about an api on its site. Maybe it's deeper in some docs that you have to login to see. I like them because their storage instances are cheap for that type of service.
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They're pretty damn ornate, but not sure what they have public. I love their service, but beyond provisioning, you're basically on your own.
Isn't Scaleway using network storage? I seem to remember very slow random IO performance when testing.
If you need fast local SSD, try Lunanode. Of the LET providers we've tried, their platform is the one most comparable to the majors. Superior even, if you consider their HA and ISO functionality. We've had a fairly substantial deployment in Toronto and a smaller one in Roubaix for the last month and we're happy so far.
Reasons over DO: around 55% better performance than DO's 1.8ghz hosts, cheaper.
Reasons over Vultr: faster deployment times, servers that don't get randomly hard-rebooted every other week (hopefully), unlimited snapshots billed per Gb, cheaper.
Scaleway uses network SSD except for their biggest server which also has local SSD. Random disk access is supposed to be 1000 or maybe 2000 iops per 50gb slice, not great but it's nowhere near as slow as a hard disk. They don't pretend to be fast boxes, though the aggregate throughput of 8 atom cores should beat any single VPS core if your problem parallelizes.
Several people have recommended Lunanode and I've kept them in mind, though I'd prefer US locations They're also mostly in OVH, which has good VPS offers of its own.
I believe most of their nodes are in Toronto, on their own hardware. I find the SSD allocations just a bit too stingy at OVH, and their snapshot pricing is excessive (more than the server itself). Although to be fair, if you don't care about storage or snapshots, OVH's lowest tier offer is incredible.
I didn't notice the SSD allocations being different across locations on their pricing page: is there more info?
I have the OVH storage situation under control. A 250GB NAT plan from @i83 at BHS sshfs mounts nicely to my low end OVH vps (1/2 price black friday sale too). Main annoyance is the vps port is capped at 100 mbps so that's the transfer speed to the storage plan. But it's fine for most things. System and active stuff is in the ssd, other stuff on the storage vps.
OVH also has disk space add-ons available, oddly cheaper when you buy the vps-ssd as a public cloud product rather than a VPS. It's Ceph triple replicated and of course more expensive than LET storage, but not at all outrageous for what it is. It beats EBS rather soundly.
LunaNode is worth a shot.
leaseweb has API and their VPS's in my exp are solid so that's an option
https://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/ Can do the same they have OpenStack-compatible API
Yup, Leaseweb is my go-to provider for stable VPSes. I haven't used their API but I do boot into their iPXE and install freebsd that way.
Had great experience with their NL network, Is their network in USA really good? To asia & south america too?
AFAIK they have a decent network