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by XERQ 13y ago
The level of dismissiveness I'm seeing in the comments here is really discouraging, and I'm disappointed to be a part of this community. In a community of startup founders fostering new ideas, I haven't seen such close-minded
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by XERQ 13y ago
We had a little bit of fun with these: Images + Discussion: http://www.xerq.net/showthread.php?158334-XERQ-marketing-at-... Images Only: http://i.imgur.com/cN6JnLh.png http://imgur.com/ZP26p
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by XERQ 13y ago
I used to be a major Gentoo user for years, but moved production servers over to FreeBSD because every few weeks commits to the portage tree would break my servers requiring hours of "massaging" to get packages compiled. Portage i
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Finding a Technical Co-Founder – Part 1(brentmichaelchow.com)
1 points by XERQ 14y ago|0 comments
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It's Easy to Steal Identities (of Corporations)(itworld.com)
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WD Builds High-Capacity, Helium-Filled HDDs(computerworld.com)
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by XERQ 14y ago
> You would look like just as much of an idiot as you do now. Please try to refrain from ad hominem attacks as it doesn't help in proving your point. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html When disagreeing, please reply to the
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by XERQ 14y ago
One of the companies on our platform actually built an entire business around selling proxies for people in other countries to have better latency to gaming servers in the US. At one point they had all their proxy/VPN endpoints on our platf
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by XERQ 14y ago
I run SSD Nodes ( http://www.ssdnodes.com ), which you can use to set up an OpenVPN/PPTP/SSH-Tunnel server for secure, private access. I've seen users in other countries using our cloud servers for VPN purposes because they got better, lowe
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How Close Are We to Immortality?(ssdnodes.com)
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by XERQ 14y ago
OP here. I'm a student finishing up my computer science and piano performance degrees at Chapman University in Orange, California. I started SSD Nodes as a summer project last year, created as a solution to the pain of all the other slow/un
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Show HN: SSD-based Cloud for Startup Developers(ssdnodes.com)
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Wanted: Astronauts(blog.ssdnodes.com)
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by XERQ 14y ago
I apologize, here's a sample pricing configuration: 8 x 3.4GHz E3-1270 11x 200GB SLC SATA III SSD (2TB @ RAID 5) 32GB DDR3 ECC RAM 6000GB Outbound BW 2 x 1 GigE Public/Private Interfaces $2369 Monthly That's just month-to-month, if a longer
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by XERQ 14y ago
I would agree with you, but them listing such broad write IOPS ranges makes me think otherwise. I could be wrong though.
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by XERQ 14y ago
Typically clients requiring that much SSD-backed storage have performance targets and a very specific workload, so this affects options along with pricing. With that said, ballpark for what Amazon is advertising is comparable to our pricing
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by XERQ 14y ago
Xen offers easy ways of doing fair I/O sharing between guests. These servers they're using are most likely multi-tenant systems with 256-512GB of RAM and 6-12TB of SSD storage. Providers don't like keeping expensive systems around that aren
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by XERQ 14y ago
If you're willing to reserve the instance for 3 years, the average monthly cost becomes only $656. That's quite a good deal. The only problem with reserving that instance for 3 years is that better hardware always comes along, especially
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by XERQ 14y ago
[edit: A few minutes of Googling, and I can't find any dedicated servers with 2 TB of SSD.] I am the founder of SSD Nodes, Inc. ( http://www.ssdnodes.com ) and we offer lower-sized SSD-backed storage in addition to custom cloud and dedica
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Never Trust a Single Provider with your Backups(blog.ssdnodes.com)
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Tomorrow’s Technology Shapes the Olympics(blog.ssdnodes.com)
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‘Spider-man:’ Hot and Heavy… for Science(blog.ssdnodes.com)
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Facebook: Operation Integration(blog.ssdnodes.com)
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Brush Your Teeth, Make Your Bed, Play Your Video Games(blog.ssdnodes.com)
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by XERQ 14y ago
You're probably right, it was actually Micron's claim that we used (end of first paragraph: http://www.micron.com/products/solid-state-storage/enterpris... ). They're still ridiculously fast. Once we can justify the expense, I would love t
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by XERQ 14y ago
We built and added Ubuntu 12.04 to our provisioning system for cloud servers at SSD Nodes ( http://www.ssdnodes.com ). It boots very quickly on our hypervisors at just 5-10 seconds. /plug
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by XERQ 15y ago
I don't mind constructive feedback, it helps us improve our services. I think we're both comparing two different things here. I mentioned in the previous post that our pricing model is scaling horizontally, rather than vertically. I've seen
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by XERQ 15y ago
Dedicated boxes with enterprise sandy bridge processors (Intel E3-1270s), enterprise SLC SATA III SSDs, segregated gigabit public (12 network providers, 8x Tier 1) and private networks (with dedicated SSL/PPTP VPN), costs considerably more
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by XERQ 15y ago
Sorry I overlooked that last bit, we do offer pro-rated billing. The way it works is when a new client orders, that becomes their monthly billing date. Any upgrades are pro-rated with the remaining days in the billing cycle. If you order an
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by XERQ 15y ago
We're using XenServer, so auto-provisioning is still on our plate since we have to build all of that in-house (solutions like SolusVM don't work with our unique infrastructure). For the most part getting a new account up and running takes 1

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