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Ask HN: Anyone using Softlayer's Cloudlayer?
Softlayer's competitor to Amazon-AWS has been out for more than 2 months, but I haven't heard much about it here since their launch. They seem to have better pricing than Amazon if you need high bandwidth. I know folks here swear by Softlayer's dedicated servers; any experience with their VPS 'cloud' services?
- lsc 17y agodo they use the same API as ec2?
- sanswork 17y agoWe use amazon and gogrid pretty extensively but also have a few servers at softlayer so when I saw them release this I got pretty excited. I went to my account and went through the process of setting up a server. Once I clicked confirm on the confirmation it brought up a page saying someone would be calling to confirm my order which seemed a bit weird since I'm use to amazon and gogrid and clicking create server and having one a few minutes later. An hour or so later(maybe two I can't remember exactly) I got my softlayer cloudserver. Considering how fast they are setting up dedicated servers it really wasn't any faster than that. Could just be an early adopter problem though. They also lack the ability to do server images that I could see when I used it which is pretty much a no go for me(I use puppet with gogrid to make due because of their location but I'm desperate for their server image solution to be released). I ended up canceling it and any plans of using their cloud services going forward. That said I still love them for their dedicated servers and service related to that and maybe I just used it at a time when they were still shaking the bugs out. Given how great their other services have been I'm sure given time this one will be awesome too. *Fixed some typos and wording, been a busy week and I'm half asleep.
- sanswork 17y agoWith regards to the sever images Softlayer just mailed to me confirm they do have them so please disregard that point. "On the topic of the server images, we do have that capability. If you view the image details page there is a "Create Image Template" link."