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For anyone looking for really straightforward way to get cloud hosting credits, checkout out IBM cloud: https://developer.ibm.com/startups/ https://developer.ib

by wlk 5y ago

For anyone looking for really straightforward way to get cloud hosting credits, checkout out IBM cloud: https://developer.ibm.com/startups/ https://developer.ibm.com/startups/ you can get a $1000/month credit for one year no commitment to continue using them after.

bufferoverflow 5y ago
One year goes fast. I'd hate knowing I have to move a year from now.
- alephu5 5y ago
  Have an open mind, maybe you wouldn't want to move.
  - giglamesh 5y ago
    For some of us, it is simply a question of budget. I'm using these tiers to run static sites for non-profits with no money and no plans to raise any.
spamalot159 5y ago
$1000/month is actually really impressive. I have seen a couple of others that offer some free credit but not nearly as much. For example Azure only gives $200 for your first 30 days https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/search https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/search The real question is: is using IBM cloud worth it? I haven't had any experience but I might be willing to try if they are just handing out money like that.
- wlk 5y ago
  You have to apply for the free credits, by filling out simple form, so there might be cases where you don't qualify. Among the people who applied I don't know of anyone who was rejected.
- kryptk 5y ago
  Was spending $20k/mo with IBM at the peak in 2019, have since migrated to AWS and left IBM completely. Thoughts: - Support, including paid enterprise support, was hilariously bad. It would take 3 days of escalations to the account manager to get even get someone to look at a ticket, weeks to resolve anything. - Billing is a broken mess. There is no common uuid between the billing and storage systems. It's literally not possible to link a billing line to a storage resource. Nobody at IBM I discussed this with felt it was a problem, but my stack dynamically provisions disks so this was actually a huge issue for me. - Managed IoT services would change under us with no notice, new quotas kicking in that took us completely offline. Nobody bothered to reach out before flipping the quotas on. I could continue but I think you get the picture.. dont take their $1k/mo poison pill, you dont want to go prod with these incapable morons.
  - qorrect 5y ago
    > Support, including paid enterprise support, was hilariously bad. It would take 3 days of escalations to the account manager to get even get someone to look at a ticket, weeks to resolve anything. Having just finished a job that used an IBM tool ( IBM Sterling File Gateway ) , I want to throw in that I'll _never_ pay for an IBM product again, their support was awful , I think they actually helped the situation once out of the 30 times we called them.

by wlk 5y ago

bufferoverflow 5y ago

One year goes fast. I'd hate knowing I have to move a year from now.

alephu5 5y ago
Have an open mind, maybe you wouldn't want to move.
- giglamesh 5y ago
  For some of us, it is simply a question of budget. I'm using these tiers to run static sites for non-profits with no money and no plans to raise any.

spamalot159 5y ago

$1000/month is actually really impressive. I have seen a couple of others that offer some free credit but not nearly as much. For example Azure only gives $200 for your first 30 days https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/search https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/search The real question is: is using IBM cloud worth it? I haven't had any experience but I might be willing to try if they are just handing out money like that.

wlk 5y ago
You have to apply for the free credits, by filling out simple form, so there might be cases where you don't qualify. Among the people who applied I don't know of anyone who was rejected.
kryptk 5y ago
Was spending $20k/mo with IBM at the peak in 2019, have since migrated to AWS and left IBM completely. Thoughts: - Support, including paid enterprise support, was hilariously bad. It would take 3 days of escalations to the account manager to get even get someone to look at a ticket, weeks to resolve anything. - Billing is a broken mess. There is no common uuid between the billing and storage systems. It's literally not possible to link a billing line to a storage resource. Nobody at IBM I discussed this with felt it was a problem, but my stack dynamically provisions disks so this was actually a huge issue for me. - Managed IoT services would change under us with no notice, new quotas kicking in that took us completely offline. Nobody bothered to reach out before flipping the quotas on. I could continue but I think you get the picture.. dont take their $1k/mo poison pill, you dont want to go prod with these incapable morons.
- qorrect 5y ago
  > Support, including paid enterprise support, was hilariously bad. It would take 3 days of escalations to the account manager to get even get someone to look at a ticket, weeks to resolve anything. Having just finished a job that used an IBM tool ( IBM Sterling File Gateway ) , I want to throw in that I'll _never_ pay for an IBM product again, their support was awful , I think they actually helped the situation once out of the 30 times we called them.