New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
Equinix Metal is ceasing operations
lenovouser
Member
in News
Dear Metal Customer,
We greatly appreciate the trust you place in Equinix as your digital infrastructure provider and strive each day to build on that trust by providing the solutions and services that deliver the greatest value. To this end, I’m writing to share an important decision that will enable us to focus on the solutions our customers have told us drive the most impact for their business.
Effective today, we will stop selling Equinix Metal and will sunset the service on June 30, 2026. There will be no changes to your current infrastructure or your support experience between now and June 30, 2026. Although we will deprioritize new features, we will of course ensure the continued performance, security, and stability of the Metal product until it is sunset. For contracts ending after this eighteen-month period, your account team will work with you to assess alternative solutions and options.
We recognize that this decision may be disruptive and may require an alternative solution for your workloads. We have activated our teams to work closely with you to identify the right path forward, including leveraging our colocation, managed-solutions offerings, or third-party options.
Our digital infrastructure services remain foundational to our strategy and how we serve our customers. We will invest further in solutions like Equinix Fabric® and Network Edge, as well as upcoming innovations aimed at better serving your needs.
Our team is dedicated to delivering a smooth process and assisting you every step of the way.
Your account team will contact you soon if they have not already. If you have any questions in the meantime or need further information, please don't hesitate to reach out to them.
Thank you for your continued partnership.
Best regards,
Jon Lin, Chief Business Officer
Mike Campbell, Chief Sales Officer
Comments
You paid Equinix Metal prices??
to the surprise of nobody.
Why?
you pay for the name. and there are many options if you want to pay more just for names.
Sure, will you buy this?
no I probably can't afford the apple car pro max.
I am not sure if there are many alternatives offering similar service in terms of features.
Very very few people offered what Equinix Metal did, I assume they're stopping since it's a product line that competes directly with quite a few of their customers.
Does anyone know what Equinix Metal customers are thinking about as an alternative solution now they're closing their bare-metal services down?
I'm really sad to see them go.
I was one of Packet.net first customers. They gave us some sweet deals.
They offered an awesome product, way before anyone else.
Instant self-provisioning, stupidly high-end networking, almost-auto BGP, a worldwide private backhaul with no bandwidth charges... not to mention their high-end ram, nvme, and cpu options years before anyone else was offering anything close...
Really awesome.
And they practically pioneered the spot market pricing model as Packet.net.
I'm happy to pay 10%-25% of their hourly whenever I need it. There was always something available.
I can spin up an entire 3node VMware cloud foundation lab in minutes.
I can pull and build the latest android QPR (or grapheneOS, or lineage) in less than an hour.
I use it for all my virl and GNS3 network modeling and testing.
All for less than the cost of a crappy starbucks coffee.
(Granted, I can do all of that lots of other places now, but a decade ago??!!)
Other options? AWS? IBM? Oracle? maybe hivelocity? I haven't used them yet. there are a few lowend hourlys, but nothing close to as well connected. cherryservers comes to mind.
Again, I have little to no experience with them, just mentioning alternatives.
OTOH, places like runpod, vast.ai, and the GPU-driven crowd do decent hourly rates for what are pretty massive machines. just without the infrastructure.
I just spun one up, for old'times'sake. pouring one out for ol'packet.
It still tickles me pink that I can spin up a 64core, .5TB ram, 8TB NVME box with 4x25Gbps full more nics (with no throttling or inbound bw charges!) for ~$.50/hr.
shee. I'll miss them!
I can't even afford for their exquisite cleaning cloth