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...and here's part of why I created Uptano. https://uptano.com https://uptano.com The flexibility of usage-based billing and instant provisioning is awesome,
by staunch 14y ago
...and here's part of why I created Uptano.
https://uptano.com https://uptano.com
The flexibility of usage-based billing and instant provisioning is awesome, but it's really not worth giving up dedicated performance IMHO.
- jamesaguilar 14y agoI upvoted because I love HN comments that offer solutions. That said . . . how can you charge half as much as Amazon for the same service and make a profit. I assume their margins are not that fat, so what are you cutting that they offer? Or else what secret have you discovered that no one knows? I guess since this is your business there's a chance that you won't answer, but I'm curious.
- RyanZAG 14y agoAWS uses high end, expensive enterprise grade parts (I believe), meanwhile uptano is likely using standard off the shelf parts, likely with bulk account discounts. Each of those servers could likely be put together for $500 - at $100/month, he should be making very good margins after a year or so. I have no idea on rent/electricity/etc, but with enough 1U servers the total cost per server may be only $10/month or so. The big costs you pay for on AWS are the engineering, networking and UI development. Dedicated servers should be easier to provision and manage and he probably has a much smaller team. So theoretically, it is possible that his prices are half as much as Amazon and he still makes a decent profit.
- johansch 14y agoMore like giant margins... http://blog.carlmercier.com/2012/01/05/ec2-is-basically-one-big-ripoff/ http://blog.carlmercier.com/2012/01/05/ec2-is-basically-one-...
- fooyc 14y agoAmazon reserved instances cost 2 to 10 times the price of renting a private dedicated server at your random dedicated server hosting service. Compare youself: https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/ https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/
- coolsunglasses 14y agoI've been looking for this for...ages... Thank you...so much for posting this.
- eurleif 14y agoThis still uses virtualization though, correct? So you don't get full dedicated performance?
- staunch 14y agoWe're using OpenVZ for this reason. It's very close to bare metal performance, with the advantages of virtualization.
- oellegaard 14y agoThat service looks absolutely awesome. Just signed up and had a look - but I miss a major thing: API.
- staunch 14y agoThe system is built on an internal API. We just need to expose a version!