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Dedicateds give huge bang for your buck - we have a pair at Hivelocity.net. One's got dual xeons w/ 12gb of ram and 4x500gb in raid 10 for like $320 a month, w

Dedicateds give huge bang for your buck - we have a pair at Hivelocity.net. One's got dual xeons w/ 12gb of ram and 4x500gb in raid 10 for like $320 a month, which works out to 42 cents an hour. The other's a single xeon w/ 8gb of ram and 2x500gb raid 1 for $160 which works out to 22 cents an hour. Both come with 10tb of bandwidth a month and are exclusively used by us, nobody is messing with our disk io or anything else. I don't know how they compare with AWS' compute units etc but if you have an ongoing need for the hardware and you're going to be paying those hourly fees (and all the others) every day of every month then I suspect it's going to be a lot cheaper than AWS.

lsb 16y ago
For 17GB of RAM and two 3.25GHz xeons and 400GB local storage, it's 18c/hr for a spot instance. Make your make payment $1/hr and you're set. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing
- benologist 16y ago
  During times when there's competition for spot instances that's going to be more money for less ram, less cpu, shitty disk IO (esp vs. our blazing raid10), and no included bandwidth. And at any time we might not be bidding enough to actually keep them...
- ericd 16y ago
  I'm not seeing this? The only thing with 17 gigs that I see is the High Mem xtra large, and that's 0.50/hour. The xeons he's talking about are quad core, each, for a total of 8, vs. 2 cores of 3.25 ECU each for the high mem xtras.
  - vetman35 16y ago
    "SPOT INSTANCE" is $0.2460 per hour right now. "ON DEMAND" is $0.50 per hour. Login to your AWS Management Console to see the current SPOT INSTANCE price.
    - ericd 16y ago
      Ah gotcha, thanks - assumed he meant that the price was listed on the page. The points about 8 vs. 2 cores still stands, though? Add to that that spot pricing isn't really comparable to guaranteed pricing (on demand is more comparable since dedicated servers are on-demand, you can cancel and get your month prorated).

lsb 16y ago

For 17GB of RAM and two 3.25GHz xeons and 400GB local storage, it's 18c/hr for a spot instance. Make your make payment $1/hr and you're set. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing

benologist 16y ago
During times when there's competition for spot instances that's going to be more money for less ram, less cpu, shitty disk IO (esp vs. our blazing raid10), and no included bandwidth. And at any time we might not be bidding enough to actually keep them...
ericd 16y ago
I'm not seeing this? The only thing with 17 gigs that I see is the High Mem xtra large, and that's 0.50/hour. The xeons he's talking about are quad core, each, for a total of 8, vs. 2 cores of 3.25 ECU each for the high mem xtras.
- vetman35 16y ago
  "SPOT INSTANCE" is $0.2460 per hour right now. "ON DEMAND" is $0.50 per hour. Login to your AWS Management Console to see the current SPOT INSTANCE price.
  - ericd 16y ago
    Ah gotcha, thanks - assumed he meant that the price was listed on the page. The points about 8 vs. 2 cores still stands, though? Add to that that spot pricing isn't really comparable to guaranteed pricing (on demand is more comparable since dedicated servers are on-demand, you can cancel and get your month prorated).