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That's the on demand pricing. You should check the math on reserved pricing and consider the TCO. Not saying you're wrong but it's at least important to accurat

by ranman 12y ago

That's the on demand pricing. You should check the math on reserved pricing and consider the TCO. Not saying you're wrong but it's at least important to accurately compare.

fweespeech 12y ago
Reserved pricing requires a year lock in. I can get something like that for about 40 Euros [and guaranteed 100mb/s on 1 gbit port] with no setup fee and no lock in beyond 30 days. Even with reserved pricing for 3 years its $5,715 = 5715/36 = ~$158/month + Bandwidth. The TCO with Amazon is only cheap when you have a very, very high variability in load. [e.g. Netflix]
- GeechieCloud 12y ago
  Can you link to this deal for an instance with similar specs as the D2.xlarge for 40 a month? that sounds like a great deal and I don't need to host in the US, but this instance type is what I've been looking for.
  - moe 12y ago
    Soyoustart 16G/4T for $42: http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ Soyoustart 8G/8T for $69: http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ Soyoustart 96G/4T for $84: http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ Hetzner EX40 32G/6T for $64: https://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex https://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-prod... LeaseWeb 16G/4T for $58: https://www.leaseweb.com/bare-metal-server/configure/18403 https://www.leaseweb.com/bare-metal-server/configure/18403
    - toomuchtodo 12y ago
      Hello distributed computing. Command + control at AWS, the heavy lifting at $cheap_dedicated_server_of_the_month.
  - fweespeech 12y ago
    Moe already linked to some of them [ if you look at soyoustart.ie you can get the price in Euros ]. But honestly the best deal is generally: https://robot.your-server.de/order/market https://robot.your-server.de/order/market If you are patient, you can get it below 40 Euros there. I honestly tend to think of things at Hetzner's auction rates or Online.net's Specials because I can wait 30 days to add a new node because I use them for side projects. If you are willing to downgrade to a Xeon E3-1245V2, they have 2 nodes for sale that are otherwise identical. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E3-1245+V2+%40+3.40GHz http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E3-1245+V... vs. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2670+v3+%40+2.30GHz http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2670+v... Of course, since you can buy like 4 of these nodes vs. 1 Amazon EC2 one...even on a 3yr reserve...ya. Generally, per-node, EC2 has better per-core performance than what you can pick up in the "bargain market" but the fact you can pick up X:1 nodes guarantees it to be a non-issue.
sciurus 12y ago
Reserved pricing for that instance ranges from 1 year with $0 upfront and $293 a month (i.e. $3522 a year) to 3 years with $5195 upfront and $0 a month (i.e. $144 a month) http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

by ranman 12y ago

That's the on demand pricing. You should check the math on reserved pricing and consider the TCO. Not saying you're wrong but it's at least important to accurately compare.

fweespeech 12y ago

Reserved pricing requires a year lock in. I can get something like that for about 40 Euros [and guaranteed 100mb/s on 1 gbit port] with no setup fee and no lock in beyond 30 days. Even with reserved pricing for 3 years its $5,715 = 5715/36 = ~$158/month + Bandwidth. The TCO with Amazon is only cheap when you have a very, very high variability in load. [e.g. Netflix]

GeechieCloud 12y ago
Can you link to this deal for an instance with similar specs as the D2.xlarge for 40 a month? that sounds like a great deal and I don't need to host in the US, but this instance type is what I've been looking for.
- moe 12y ago
  Soyoustart 16G/4T for $42: http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ Soyoustart 8G/8T for $69: http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ Soyoustart 96G/4T for $84: http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ Hetzner EX40 32G/6T for $64: https://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex https://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-prod... LeaseWeb 16G/4T for $58: https://www.leaseweb.com/bare-metal-server/configure/18403 https://www.leaseweb.com/bare-metal-server/configure/18403
  - toomuchtodo 12y ago
    Hello distributed computing. Command + control at AWS, the heavy lifting at $cheap_dedicated_server_of_the_month.
- fweespeech 12y ago
  Moe already linked to some of them [ if you look at soyoustart.ie you can get the price in Euros ]. But honestly the best deal is generally: https://robot.your-server.de/order/market https://robot.your-server.de/order/market If you are patient, you can get it below 40 Euros there. I honestly tend to think of things at Hetzner's auction rates or Online.net's Specials because I can wait 30 days to add a new node because I use them for side projects. If you are willing to downgrade to a Xeon E3-1245V2, they have 2 nodes for sale that are otherwise identical. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E3-1245+V2+%40+3.40GHz http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E3-1245+V... vs. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2670+v3+%40+2.30GHz http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2670+v... Of course, since you can buy like 4 of these nodes vs. 1 Amazon EC2 one...even on a 3yr reserve...ya. Generally, per-node, EC2 has better per-core performance than what you can pick up in the "bargain market" but the fact you can pick up X:1 nodes guarantees it to be a non-issue.

sciurus 12y ago

Reserved pricing for that instance ranges from 1 year with $0 upfront and $293 a month (i.e. $3522 a year) to 3 years with $5195 upfront and $0 a month (i.e. $144 a month) http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/