Re:Show HN: Anomalous – Real-time monitoring for servers, ap...
by jlgaddis on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @01:11AM
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Just a quick note, for what it's worth.
I work for an ISP/MSP. In addition to our servers and network, we manage those of many of our customers. We would never pay $10/month/server for this and neither would our customers. There was a time when we probably would have -- when we deployed on bare metal -- but with the rise of virtualization it's simply no longer possible. Whereas a customer might have had three (physical) servers a few years ago, they might have 15 or 20 now ("one task per (virtual) server") and that makes your product unaffordable.
I work for an ISP/MSP. In addition to our servers and network, we manage those of many of our customers. We would never pay $10/month/server for this and neither would our customers. There was a time when we probably would have -- when we deployed on bare metal -- but with the rise of virtualization it's simply no longer possible. Whereas a customer might have had three (physical) servers a few years ago, they might have 15 or 20 now ("one task per (virtual) server") and that makes your product unaffordable.