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>where you just don't have the ability to run hardware (increasingly the case) Softlayer has 'on demand' bare metal plans. I'm not sure how cost effective it w
by Toast_ 9y ago
>where you just don't have the ability to run hardware (increasingly the case)
Softlayer has 'on demand' bare metal plans. I'm not sure how cost effective it would be compared compared to running your own box, but the simplicity is nice and they had me up and running in under 2 hours (assembled with customizations).
http://www.softlayer.com/bare-metal-servers http://www.softlayer.com/bare-metal-servers
- utternerd 9y agoAs a customer, I can tell you we're very, very happy (Singapore SoftLayer, our Asian DC). No upfront capex, I can add or subtract hardware as necessary (I can say the same, they usually take about 2 hours to have it up and configured as requested), and my favorite benefit is when new hardware is available, we just spin up new servers and retire the old ones; bill ends up being the ~same. It runs substantially cheaper than our colo here in Irvine, but that's also not apples-to-apples. That said, I don't plan on continuing with colos unless there's a pressing reason, after almost 15 years of them being my default. Bare Metal is the sweet spot in my eyes, the benefits of cloud without the downside of shared/inconsistent resources.
- toast0 9y agoHow custom can you get with the hourly machines? The order page (without logging in) looks like you have to pick a ram size (and they don't go beyond 256GB), and you can only go up to 4 disks. That said, I know the order page for monthly has maximum ram sizes listed below some of the monthly machines I manage, so maybe the hourly page is a simplified version of the truth too.
- Toast_ 9y agoI'm not really sure about hourly plans. When I was configuring my machine (~1-2 years ago) I was able to select hourly or monthly billing (hourly would've been outrageously expensive).