jeremyjarvis

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by jeremyjarvis 14y ago
@jjm both Brightbox and AWS have to give notice before increasing prices. Again, I maintain the hourly on-demand price is a fair comparison
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by jeremyjarvis 14y ago
Because it's not a common unit for comparison. The spot price can fluctuate. Obviously. (you edited your comment, so I'll edit mine :) ... How can you assume the spot price will stay the same?
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by jeremyjarvis 14y ago
This is clearly a comparison of on-demand instances, where the common unit is the hourly rate as with other IaaS. Reserved instances in themselves have a cost in terms of commitment or risk (if you aren't able to sell them back later).
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by jeremyjarvis 14y ago
They're open source benchmarks, try them yourself if not convinced :)
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Brightbox vs Amazon EC2: Phoronix Ubuntu 12.04 Benchmarks(brightbox.com)
32 points by jeremyjarvis 14y ago|26 comments
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by jeremyjarvis 15y ago
Be interested to know how you did this tbh. Pretty sure EC2 doesn't let you map multiple elastic IPs to an instance afaik?
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Brightbox updates Cloud Load Balancers for real-time applications(brightbox.com)
8 points by jeremyjarvis 15y ago|0 comments
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Ubuntu Precise daily builds available on Brightbox Cloud(brightbox.com)
10 points by jeremyjarvis 15y ago|3 comments
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Brightbox launches IPv6 for Cloud Servers(brightbox.com)
30 points by jeremyjarvis 15y ago|5 comments
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The Social Network 2 (official trailer)(youtube.com)
1 points by jeremyjarvis 15y ago|0 comments
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by jeremyjarvis 15y ago
Oops, dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3306361
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Facebook buys Gowalla(mashable.com)
2 points by jeremyjarvis 15y ago|1 comments
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Anti-piracy campaign used music without permission(torrentfreak.com)
1 points by jeremyjarvis 15y ago|0 comments
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by jeremyjarvis 15y ago
Oh, why not: http://jeremyjarvis.co.uk/grabs/d28dbe268c98efd6369e5813.png
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Dell posts inaccurate comparison image, promptly removes it and apologizes(engadget.com)
3 points by jeremyjarvis 15y ago|1 comments
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Up To 30 Gbps: New Chip Enables Record-Breaking Wireless Data Transmission Speed(techcrunch.com)
6 points by jeremyjarvis 15y ago|3 comments
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Google+ continues battle with fading user interest(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
12 points by jeremyjarvis 15y ago|19 comments
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How Famous Companies Got Their Names(stocklogos.com)
7 points by jeremyjarvis 15y ago|0 comments
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Rackspace releases "reference architecture" for OpenStack(referencearchitecture.org)
3 points by jeremyjarvis 15y ago|0 comments
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Distributed IPv6-ready Firewall service from Brightbox Cloud(brightbox.com)
14 points by jeremyjarvis 15y ago|1 comments
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What is Amazon’s Secret for Success and Why is EC2 a Runaway Train?(cloudscaling.com)
2 points by jeremyjarvis 15y ago|0 comments
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by jeremyjarvis 15y ago
Noooo. They seriously only give 2 weeks holiday a year? that's insane.
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Brightbox announces custom reverse DNS for Cloud IPs(brightbox.com)
5 points by jeremyjarvis 15y ago|0 comments
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by jeremyjarvis 15y ago
> Are you guys using local disks or SAN? No SANs, anywhere! :) > Are you guys using Eucalyptus? It's our own stack. Eucalyptus afaik doesn't handle zones as geographically distinct datacentres and, when we looked at it a long time
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Brightbox announces websockets-based Cloud Server console(blog.brightbox.co.uk)
26 points by jeremyjarvis 16y ago|4 comments
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Amazon S3 adds new features for hosting static websites(aws.amazon.com)
23 points by jeremyjarvis 16y ago|1 comments
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by jeremyjarvis 16y ago
@tastybites: a /little/ bit more to it than that ;) we do run the loadbalancing layer across multiple locations which is non-trivial. [Disclosure: I'm co-founder at Brightbox]
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by jeremyjarvis 16y ago
Patrick - negligible, it's all on the same network. [Disclosure: I'm co-founder at Brightbox]
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by jeremyjarvis 16y ago
"To top that off, Salesforce just bought Heroku, telling the world that they really intend to compete in cloud hosting against Amazon" I don't think so, not directly anyway. Heroku is platform-as-a-service (applications), Amazon is infrastr
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by jeremyjarvis 16y ago
Two years is an incredible length of time in this "industry". Look how fast Amazon are rolling out features compared to Rackspace (their current closest rival). Rackspace are losing the arms race. IMV they simply don't have the cloud engine

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