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https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/ https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/ Granted, that's the bottom of the barrel (single disk, no IPKVM etc.), but $100 keeps you running
by gnosek 9y ago
https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/ https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/
Granted, that's the bottom of the barrel (single disk, no IPKVM etc.), but $100 keeps you running for over a year. Better servers are easily available as well, usually a couple of times cheaper than AWS.
Is this a US thing? Based on HN only, I'd never know there's anything between the public cloud and racks of own hardware that you have to wire up and maintain.
I have a bunch of quad core 32 GB machines with dual 480GB SSDs for less than $100/month each (and that's a rather expensive provider with great support, you'll cut the price almost in half with e.g. SoYouStart).
Yes, AWS is convenient, but it's far from the only thing in the world.
- scurvy 9y agoHN types are enamored with the scale and size that is necessary to run the massive framework for their blogs.
- user5994461 9y agoHN has a lot of professionals. They can't run a business on a refurbished server without ECC and without RAID and without dual power supplies. Saying that they should run on kumsufi is like explaining to a wholesale company that they should use motorbikes instead of trucks, because motorbikes are cheaper.
- late2part 9y agoAWS Advocates Eventual Consistency, and I believe offers less than 3 nines guaranteed uptime on many products. We've been taught to build distributed system with unreliable componens and temporaral JIT eventual consistency. Of course we can run production cloud-scale operations on unreliable systems. And single power supplies without ECC or RAID is pretty low on my list of things that cause outages. Most big hadoop/cassandra shops are running without raid and without redundant power.
- user5994461 9y agohadoop/cassandra are replicated to multiple nodes by the software. That's a terrible argument for not using any raid in regular setups.
- late2part 9y agoI suspect your and my definition of regular setups is different. My regular setups are stateless and automatically installed and configured.
- user5994461 9y agoLucky you, never having to deal with any database or storage.
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- gnosek 9y agoOf course. I'm not telling anybody to run on kimsufi, like I'm not running kimsufi myself, but on brand-new Supermicro machines that check all your boxes. Kimsufi is still dedicated hardware (however low-end) that costs 1 figure instead of 5/6. For normal server-grade hardware it's just 5x cheaper than AWS, not 20x.
- user5994461 9y agoKimsufi and soyoustart are brands of OVH. You don't need to explain again and again that they sell cheaper servers than AWS. Same for super micro. The HN audience know the common suppliers. Again, you're arguing for motorbikes instead of trucks because they are cheaper. Noone care about that, trucks were not selected based on costs in the first place.
- amazingman 9y agoYeah, and AWS has a free tier. $0/month is better than $100/month, right?