Re:Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer
by dvfjsdhgfv on Thursday March 17, 2016 @04:06AM
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It's fascinating for me to see again and again people somehow accustomed to cloud pricing hear about bare metal hosting offerings and not to believe the prices could be that low.
BTW this applies not only to traffic, but also processing power and storage.
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If you are looking for a bargain with little commitment, you might want to take a look at Hetzner's auction.
https://robot.your-server.de/order/market/sortcol/ram/sortty...
The gotcha is the allowable bandwidth for their auction machines are lower than their normally priced servers.
https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver
I got lucky and found a 32GB machine with 4 Samsung SSDs in their auction and it has served me well for testing. I write about it my blog below:
http://gitsense.github.io/blog/benchmarking-march-14-2016.ht...
I think I'm paying about 68 euros a month for it. The Canadian dollar has taken a beating, so it's not as good of a deal as it use to be, but it's still a good deal none the less.