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I use http://bigv.io/ http://bigv.io/ - much better and local to me. There is only a few beers difference between €2.99 and £12 a month... They are VMs but the

I use http://bigv.io/ http://bigv.io/ - much better and local to me. There is only a few beers difference between €2.99 and £12 a month... They are VMs but they perform better than a dedicated Atom from my testing.

JosephRedfern 13y ago
Do they perform x4.65 better than a dedicated Atom?
- harrytuttle 13y ago
  No but they work, get provisioned within 5 minutes, have decent support, are faster and can be upgraded on the fly to 2TiB SATA, 2TiB 15K SAS, 2TiB SSD, 180GiB RAM, 16 cores without having to reinstall anything... That's more than 4.65x better.
  - mattmanser 13y ago
    That's a VM, not a dedicated machine. Big, big difference.
    - harrytuttle 13y ago
      Yep having managed both for years, give me a VM any day.
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thenomad 13y ago
I also use BigV, and can confirm that they're hella solid for a cloud service. Plus, their custom Linux distro, Symbiosis, makes a quick setup of a new site considerably quicker.
thejosh 13y ago
For that price, you might as well use someone who uses SSDs, and offer more storage at that, such as Digital Ocean. [1] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing
- dragontamer 13y ago
  So... this is where that "street cred" comes in. Digital Ocean is a new startup, and I like what they are doing. But never forget, Digital Ocean is less than a year old. They are having growing pains, they don't know which policies are hurting them long term. (ie: their former "unlimited bandwidth" issue). Naturally, Digital Ocean will be cheaper than more respected and established players. When you're building a business on a web hosting company, saving a couple of bucks a month is not really worth it if reliability goes down.
  - vidyesh 13y ago
    Okay the fact is Digital Ocean (DO) came into existence in early 2011. Yes, the start up is new but the guys behind DO are really old players. The guys behind DO had a hosting company called 'Reality Check Network', it was great. They were new that time and if you google about Reality Check Network you will find a bad incident because of which it was shut down. In 2010, their servers were hacked and the attackers corrupted the filesystems which forced them to reformat everything. They were managing around 1,000 servers that time and the backup system in 2010 wouldn't allow them to restore so many servers at once, the only option they had was to do it manually which required 4 man hours of work for each server. And that process could take more than 2 months because of the 4000 odd man hours required to do the job. This was from a long email they sent to their customers, which shows they were transparent and admitted the issue and the problem. ( Unlike many reliable servers which are not being transparent and cause a lot of problem/trust issue. Linode? ) From what it looks like, for almost a month they tried getting all the data back but eventually couldn't so they folded and moved on. Almost 6-8 months later in 2011, they launched DO and been almost 3 years they are doing great. Rather best. No such incident and data is secure. They surely learned their lesson. I would say despite their past, they are the experienced players whom we can trust. Even though they are building their business they are really reliable, affordable and looks like they are here for long. Edit : http://www.inc.com/profile/reality-check-network http://www.inc.com/profile/reality-check-network http://www.crunchbase.com/company/reality-check-network http://www.crunchbase.com/company/reality-check-network
lucaspiller 13y ago
For that price you might as well go with Linode (in their London DC) and get 8 cores, 48GB disk space and 1TB bandwidth. Works out to be ~£13.
- harrytuttle 13y ago
  Three things: 1. Linode are 8 cores but only 1 is guaranteed. 2. Linode are not UK based whereas Bytemark (bigv's parent company) are UK based. 3. Linode are unreliable. Google for citations.

JosephRedfern 13y ago

Do they perform x4.65 better than a dedicated Atom?

harrytuttle 13y ago
No but they work, get provisioned within 5 minutes, have decent support, are faster and can be upgraded on the fly to 2TiB SATA, 2TiB 15K SAS, 2TiB SSD, 180GiB RAM, 16 cores without having to reinstall anything... That's more than 4.65x better.
- mattmanser 13y ago
  That's a VM, not a dedicated machine. Big, big difference.
  - harrytuttle 13y ago
    Yep having managed both for years, give me a VM any day.
    - deleted 13y ago
      [deleted]

thenomad 13y ago

I also use BigV, and can confirm that they're hella solid for a cloud service. Plus, their custom Linux distro, Symbiosis, makes a quick setup of a new site considerably quicker.

thejosh 13y ago

For that price, you might as well use someone who uses SSDs, and offer more storage at that, such as Digital Ocean. [1] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing

dragontamer 13y ago
So... this is where that "street cred" comes in. Digital Ocean is a new startup, and I like what they are doing. But never forget, Digital Ocean is less than a year old. They are having growing pains, they don't know which policies are hurting them long term. (ie: their former "unlimited bandwidth" issue). Naturally, Digital Ocean will be cheaper than more respected and established players. When you're building a business on a web hosting company, saving a couple of bucks a month is not really worth it if reliability goes down.
- vidyesh 13y ago
  Okay the fact is Digital Ocean (DO) came into existence in early 2011. Yes, the start up is new but the guys behind DO are really old players. The guys behind DO had a hosting company called 'Reality Check Network', it was great. They were new that time and if you google about Reality Check Network you will find a bad incident because of which it was shut down. In 2010, their servers were hacked and the attackers corrupted the filesystems which forced them to reformat everything. They were managing around 1,000 servers that time and the backup system in 2010 wouldn't allow them to restore so many servers at once, the only option they had was to do it manually which required 4 man hours of work for each server. And that process could take more than 2 months because of the 4000 odd man hours required to do the job. This was from a long email they sent to their customers, which shows they were transparent and admitted the issue and the problem. ( Unlike many reliable servers which are not being transparent and cause a lot of problem/trust issue. Linode? ) From what it looks like, for almost a month they tried getting all the data back but eventually couldn't so they folded and moved on. Almost 6-8 months later in 2011, they launched DO and been almost 3 years they are doing great. Rather best. No such incident and data is secure. They surely learned their lesson. I would say despite their past, they are the experienced players whom we can trust. Even though they are building their business they are really reliable, affordable and looks like they are here for long. Edit : http://www.inc.com/profile/reality-check-network http://www.inc.com/profile/reality-check-network http://www.crunchbase.com/company/reality-check-network http://www.crunchbase.com/company/reality-check-network

lucaspiller 13y ago

For that price you might as well go with Linode (in their London DC) and get 8 cores, 48GB disk space and 1TB bandwidth. Works out to be ~£13.

harrytuttle 13y ago
Three things: 1. Linode are 8 cores but only 1 is guaranteed. 2. Linode are not UK based whereas Bytemark (bigv's parent company) are UK based. 3. Linode are unreliable. Google for citations.