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Cloudscale – Swiss virtual servers
- epynonymous 12y agoi imagine hosting a datacenter in switzerland has got to expensive like everything else in that country，and typically renewable energy technology is just as expensive
- Nux 12y agoAre they using a proprietary cloud platform or one of the open source ones?
- mweibel 12y agoAs far as I can see they're using an Open-Source platform (on the first paragraph they mention it).
- tedunangst 12y agoDo they mention what exactly? As near as I can tell, that could just mean they're running Linux on Xen. That's "built on open source".
- talles 12y agoAnyone have any idea what their pricing will look like?
- nickthemagicman 12y agoI was wondering that too. Seems like it would be useful info.
- polack 12y agoHow do they differentiate themselves from other providers? Feels like the ordinary "it will sell because it says Swiss all over the place".
- mrsaint 12y ago>How do they differentiate themselves from other providers? Feels like the ordinary "it will sell because it says Swiss all over the place". Good luck with that. ☺️ Swiss privacy laws aren't any better than, lets say, Germany's, but you pay a lot more for less (hardware, bandwith) due to limited competition.
- sschueller 12y agoAlso a large number of data centers here are owned by US corporations. Does anyone know in who's data center they are?
- retrack 12y agoI must agree that the Swiss privacy law (DPA - Data Protection Act) is similar in the requirements it commands to data owners. The significant difference is that it not only applies to individuals like in Germany or EU but to Corporations too. https://www.exoscale.ch/infrastructure/security/#data-protection https://www.exoscale.ch/infrastructure/security/#data-protec...
- tedunangst 12y agoWow is that map widget annoying on mobile. It takes up the whole screen and eats scroll gestures, making it impossible to get last or go back.
- kordless 12y agoIt's the one from Mapbox. On my own site I had to fiddle with it to get it to work properly with mobile.
- kordless 12y agoIf they are using OpenStack, I would highly encourage them to not screw with the basic Glance setup. I've used ~10 public cloud providers who run OpenStack now, and most of them screw Glance up in one way or another, rendering the rest of the offering fairly worthless because of the inability to use custom images.
- kragniz 12y agoWhat are some examples of screwing with the basic Glance setup? Not allowing custom images?
- kordless 12y agoNot allowing custom images, not allowing certain formats, not allowing the use of a URL (which Glance then d/l and manages), not allowing uploading and simply not configuring the endpoints to be advertised AT ALL.
- noipv4 12y agoWe have a few Dalco (swiss server co.) servers in our data-center here in Ticino. They are as good as normal Dell rackmount servers.
- psuter 12y agoI guess this is a good time to ask, then: can anyone recommend a good VPS provider with servers in Switzerland? (as in: not in beta, but available today)
- yc1010 12y agoI rented VPS 2-3 years ago from https://www.privatelayer.com/ https://www.privatelayer.com/ not sure if they still do VPSes tho looking at the site now.
- pyritschard 12y agoI mentioned https://exoscale.ch https://exoscale.ch in another reply, we're doing more than VPS and have been out and serving customers for a while now !
- yc1010 12y agoNo mention as to whether Bitcoin (or Paysafecard) will be accepted, there is no point talking about PRIVACY when only payment methods such as paypal or credit cards are used which do not offer Privacy
- pyritschard 12y agoIf you're looking for a provider already out of beta, I'd encourage you to check-out https://exoscale.ch https://exoscale.ch (disclaimer: I'm the CTO there). We have object-storage, a heroku compatible PaaS and our cloudstack based IaaS. We also contribute a ton of dOSS things whether in existing projects (riemann, collectd, graphite) or home grown projects such as http://pithos.io http://pithos.io If you're keen to try out, you can register with the WELOVEHN coupon which will get you started with a few more credits than the usual CHF20, we also do special prices for startups, available here: https://www.exoscale.ch/pricing-target/ https://www.exoscale.ch/pricing-target/
- osipov 12y ago>>heroku compatible PaaS Are you based on Cloud Foundry?
- retrack 12y agoNo not cloud Foundry. LXC containers with the right orchestration.
- epynonymous 12y agoshould check out kubernetes
- rb2k_ 12y agoThanks! Signed up and pointed my Arq backup at your S3 compatible service (one of many backends).
- pyritschard 12y agonice, duplicity also works out quite well for this use case.
- ranit 12y ago>> ... can register with the WELOVEHN coupon which will get you started with a few more credits than the usual CHF20 ... Looks good, but I don't see an entry for the coupon and the "usual" credit appears to be CHF 5?!?
- mindcrime 12y agoDoes being "Swiss" mean much in international terms, for something like this? That is, if I, as an American citizen, have a server with these guys, and the USG comes knocking wanting to image my instance, are they going to offer any more resistance than a US (or German, or South African, or Mexican, etc.) provider?
- rdegges 12y agoWould it be ok to run a tor exit relay on something like this? I recently decided to contribute to the project, but have been realizing that finding an Exit-node friendly host is basically impossible. Would love to run one here if it's allowed!