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by XERQ 6y ago
https://www.ssdnodes.com/ SSD Nodes is a bootstrapped cloud hosting provider I've been working on since 2011. Our servers are 90% lower cost than DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode when you commit to 1 or 3 years in advan
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by XERQ 7y ago
SSD Nodes is a bootstrapped cloud hosting provider I've been working on since 2011. Our servers are 90% lower cost than DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode when you commit to 1 or 3 years in advance. We recently launched a Performance line
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Useful Linux terminal one-liners(ssdnodes.com)
2 points by XERQ 8y ago|0 comments
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by XERQ 8y ago
Agreed. Duck.com redirects to on2.com which, surprisingly, links to DuckDuckGo. > If you meant to visit the search engine DuckDuckGo, click here. I wouldn't have expected that from Google.
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by XERQ 8y ago
Hey there, Thanks for reaching out and sorry to hear about the issues you’re experiencing. We use several different services for managing fraud, and one of them flagged your IP. Not sure why since everything else looks fine, so we reviewed
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by XERQ 9y ago
Totally understand, and thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. In most cases our annual price is equivalent to 1-3 months of a competitor's monthly price. You mentioned AWS so I'm going to use them as an example, even
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by XERQ 9y ago
We're definitely planning on offering Windows in the future. There are some licensing headaches, and it also means having people on staff that are experts in both Linux AND Windows (for customer queries, etc). So it's a bit more i
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by XERQ 9y ago
The 16/32GB RAM options are actually the lowest we offer. We did the side deal thing in the past, but having different pricing on the main site and a landing page just made things more complicated and led to unhappy customers.
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by XERQ 9y ago
We will definitely add support for Fedora in the future.
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by XERQ 9y ago
It's super easy. Just log into the dashboard and select your server, then "Upgrade" to see the options. From there, choose the package you want and your KVM server will be automatically scaled up (with zero downtime).
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by XERQ 9y ago
For those of you looking for competitive prices with servers in the U.S., take a look at SSD Nodes—a bootstrapped hosting provider I've been working on since 2011. I'm the founder and CEO, so I'm a little biased, but we&#x2
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by XERQ 9y ago
I lurk on here and don't really contribute (mostly due to time constraints). I keep coming back because of the quality of comments and discussions and the positive way people treat each other.
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Ask HN: How do startups build trust with customers?
2 points by XERQ 9y ago|1 comments
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by XERQ 10y ago
Hey there, those are great questions! First to answer your security questions. We're using KernelCare, which is like Ksplice. It keeps all our host kernels updated with no reboots needed. OpenVZ, when used properly, provides us with ma
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by XERQ 10y ago
Thanks for taking the time to respond, really appreciate it. You mentioned hourly billing, but the OVH plans you reviewed are monthly[0], and all the pricing you listed on the site is monthly. We're trying to go in a different directio
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by XERQ 10y ago
I'm the founder of SSD Nodes, Inc., which is a bootstrapped SSD-based hosting provider for startups that I've been working on since 2011. Some of our clients have posted benchmarks showing great performance, such as 800MB/s+
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by XERQ 10y ago
I'm the founder of SSD Nodes, Inc., which is a bootstrapped SSD-based hosting provider for startups that I've been working on since 2011. We have several locations which are great for VPNs: NYC, Dallas, Seattle, and Montreal. We&#
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by XERQ 10y ago
Have you considered charging by number of fans per outlet, instead of a flat $1/credit? Seems to me the value is in the blog's reach, similar to CPM in advertising. It goes against the simplicity of your platform, so you could mak
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by XERQ 11y ago
If you're concerned about the overhead of an SSL handshake, another option is simply using '//embed.example.com' so it automatically chooses http/https based on the main site.
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by XERQ 11y ago
(Responding here since I can't reply directly) No problem. We actually ran a sale a few weeks ago at LowEndBox and added several hundred customers for our OpenVZ offerings, so I would point at the numbers as proof :-)
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by XERQ 11y ago
Across the company we use all of them, because our enterprise clients all have different needs. For this deal we use OpenVZ, with our own proprietary workload balancing algorithm that migrates containers so that each gets optimal performanc
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by XERQ 11y ago
We operate out of several datacenters, the servers for this deal are located in Montreal, Canada. We don't have EU servers yet, but are planning in expansion.
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by XERQ 11y ago
I'm the founder of SSD Nodes, a US-based cloud provider, and we have special HN pricing where you can get 1GB RAM instances for only $2.99/mo https://www.ssdnodes.com/hn/ * You can upgrade with zero downtime
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by XERQ 12y ago
Not quite a SaaS company, but I'll chime in anyway. For SSD Nodes we've done "trials" for enterprises with an explicit expiration date where the service gets disabled if we don't receive their payment. This tightens
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by XERQ 12y ago
My bad, it's sometimes easy to overlook the sidebar.
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by XERQ 12y ago
A bit off topic, it looks like Sam Altman is ramping up his blogging activity due to YC's S15 open sign-ups.
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by XERQ 12y ago
Sloppy? Written on the left column (emphasis mine): Geoff Ralston Startups, technology, and education. ==> Partner at Y Combinator <== Founder and Partner at Imagine K12
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by XERQ 12y ago
I apologize if there was any confusion. We're running a holiday promo, which is written above the pricing table: "Get 14 days free + 90% off for 3 months during the holidays!" We try to keep it as clear and concise as possibl
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by XERQ 12y ago
I happen to be Matt Connor :-) My username also happens to be "XERQ," and my profile lists SSD Nodes, JARVYS, and XERQ. I'm transparent when it comes to the projects I'm a part of, if that's a concern. If the main c
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by XERQ 12y ago
Heroku is one of the offenders, but you're absolutely right and I went ahead and fixed it.

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