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IBM clouds offering for a machine with 1 vCPU 4 GB RAM 100 GB Storage (25 GB boot, 75 GB data) is around $180/month in my local currency

by erk__ 5y ago

volta83 5y ago
Right, the article could have just done this, and compare IBM clould vs Amazon / Google / Azure for equivalently powered instances. If what the article says is true, then for a similar workload, then IBM could instances ought to be much cheaper than the competition. I only have experience with GCN, but to me it looks like GCN is much cheaper then IBM cloud, so something must be extremely off in the calculations done in the article.
rbanffy 5y ago
You are mentioning the "Hyper Protect" instances. They are not directly comparable to the garden variety t3a.nano. https://www.ibm.com/cloud/hyper-protect-virtual-servers https://www.ibm.com/cloud/hyper-protect-virtual-servers The fact there is a market for them is a quite notable.
- erk__ 5y ago
  Yeah, they are not really that comparable, but I don't think they have any other z/Architechture vps avalible at IBM (or at anyone else for that matter) so I thought that was the best comparison.
  - rbanffy 5y ago
    No. I think it's really sad. It's really hard to get Linux on POWER boxes too from them. I find it perplexing too, but I guess they don't want IBM Cloud to eat away from their high-margin SKUs.
jeffbee 5y ago
If you were to specify an E2-custom instance from Google with so few resources it would only cost $46/month. So either this slice of a mainframe is 4 times more useful, or it's bullshit.
PaywallBuster 5y ago
Summary 1Virtual server instance $0.106/hr 2 vCPUs 8 GiB RAM 4 Gbps Image provided CentOS Boot volume $0.018/hr 100 GB Virtual Private Cloud provided Network interface provided Apply a code Apply Please sign up to create or login before applying the promo code. Subtotal $89.35 Sustained usage discount -$7.87 Total estimated cost $81.48/mo
FpUser 5y ago
Dedicated server from OVH I am renting for $175USD - 16 real cores, 128GB RAM, 2 SSDs

IBM clouds offering for a machine with 1 vCPU 4 GB RAM 100 GB Storage (25 GB boot, 75 GB data) is around $180/month in my local currency

by erk__ 5y ago

IBM clouds offering for a machine with 1 vCPU 4 GB RAM 100 GB Storage (25 GB boot, 75 GB data) is around $180/month in my local currency

volta83 5y ago

Right, the article could have just done this, and compare IBM clould vs Amazon / Google / Azure for equivalently powered instances. If what the article says is true, then for a similar workload, then IBM could instances ought to be much cheaper than the competition. I only have experience with GCN, but to me it looks like GCN is much cheaper then IBM cloud, so something must be extremely off in the calculations done in the article.

rbanffy 5y ago

You are mentioning the "Hyper Protect" instances. They are not directly comparable to the garden variety t3a.nano. https://www.ibm.com/cloud/hyper-protect-virtual-servers https://www.ibm.com/cloud/hyper-protect-virtual-servers The fact there is a market for them is a quite notable.

erk__ 5y ago
Yeah, they are not really that comparable, but I don't think they have any other z/Architechture vps avalible at IBM (or at anyone else for that matter) so I thought that was the best comparison.
- rbanffy 5y ago
  No. I think it's really sad. It's really hard to get Linux on POWER boxes too from them. I find it perplexing too, but I guess they don't want IBM Cloud to eat away from their high-margin SKUs.

jeffbee 5y ago

If you were to specify an E2-custom instance from Google with so few resources it would only cost $46/month. So either this slice of a mainframe is 4 times more useful, or it's bullshit.

PaywallBuster 5y ago

Summary 1Virtual server instance $0.106/hr 2 vCPUs 8 GiB RAM 4 Gbps Image provided CentOS Boot volume $0.018/hr 100 GB Virtual Private Cloud provided Network interface provided Apply a code Apply Please sign up to create or login before applying the promo code. Subtotal $89.35 Sustained usage discount -$7.87 Total estimated cost $81.48/mo

FpUser 5y ago

Dedicated server from OVH I am renting for $175USD - 16 real cores, 128GB RAM, 2 SSDs