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I've been using this for the past few weeks and its fantastic no GUI as of yet but a really simple to use command line tool.
by thehodge 16y ago
I've been using this for the past few weeks and its fantastic no GUI as of yet but a really simple to use command line tool.
- petercooper 16y agoWhat I like is it offers the pros of both the basic EC2 service (with cloud IPs too) and your more typical Linode-esque service. Besides, there are few enough new plays in the UK hosting space so it's always good to see that too.
- dawson 16y agoI'm also interested to know the pros of this service vs. say Linode's UK data centre?
- drsmalls 16y agoafaik Brightbox have multiple physical data centre locations, so you can do the same kind of multi-zone deployment you can with EC2 in the US. Linode have one data centre, it will obviously have diverse power and connectivity but it's still one physical location (remember, even Rackspace who clearly have diverse everything still have downtime in their flagship data centre which is one physical location http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackspace#Downtime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackspace#Downtime)
- petercooper 16y agoI have two VPSes at Linode's UK data centre as well as a Brightbox VPS I just obtained. I'm not sure I can come up with a fair apples-for-apples benchmark though I might try fetching some big files from the US just to see how they both fare with connectivity.. If anyone can recommend some good, fair tests though, I'd be happy to try them. Update: As a basic test I did some ping runs. Linode benched on average just 1% lower latency over 10 pings but had higher max latency so was less consistent. On Brightbox latency was spookily consistent.