Re:Making scaling a money issue vs. a time issue?
by davidw on Friday August 31, 2007 @04:11AM
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You can get a dedicated box from Layered Tech for about the same price. Same deal though - you run everything yourself.
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Re:Making scaling a money issue vs. a time issue?
by nameless on Friday August 31, 2007 @12:44PM
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Not even close to slice's price actually. They start at 99$ for a VPS, which is what we are talking about. Slice starts at 20$.
Re:Making scaling a money issue vs. a time issue?
by davidw on Friday August 31, 2007 @01:10PM
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Yeah, $20 for a way underpowered (256megs?!) system with little storage. I guess that could work if you have a system that you want to scale up little by little, but I'm suspicious of VPS's after having had a few blow up on me and generally perform badly.
When comparing apples to apples, you want to look at LT's specials:
https://order.layeredtech.com/ConfigureServer.lt?method=disp...
Which is $20 setup and $70 a month, which is the same price as the slice system, only with double the storage and your own, real computer.