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Re:Show HN: Minimalist VPS Provider with Project Atomic / Co... by twelvenmonkeys on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @11:04PM (#9385684)
To note, I started this as a frustration to current VPS providers. I wanted a minimalist, straight to the point, fast deploying VPS service with no bullshit.

Myself and another developer ended up creating our own provider from scratch with our own equipment co-located at a reliable DC.

In all we used: Back-end: libvirt + kvm virtualization + ruby + go Front-end: siantra (control panel), WHCMS (billing), all integrated into one (sinatra is reversed proxied via lighttpd) Background / workers: resque + goworkers + some ruby workers

We're the first to introduce Atomic Project images.

We're still developing and continuing to add features. One of them being hourly billing as well as scaling.

Re:Show HN: Minimalist VPS Provider with Project Atomic / Co... by detaro on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @11:20PM (#9385721)
Interesting options, I like that you offer CoreOS and other "fancy" options. Also nice that you accept an SSH key, way to many services mail passwords around.

From the FAQ: > Is this a contract?

> No it is not, you may cancel at any time.

Then how would you call it/what legal construct does describe the relationship with your customers? Maybe wording it as "Can I cancel anytime? Yes." would work better.

EDIT: removed second question, misread something

Re:Show HN: Minimalist VPS Provider with Project Atomic / Co... by ryanmjacobs on Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:42PM (#9391666)
I just want to say that this VPS provider is fantastic. It's so cheap and easy to get running. I'm just discovering CoreOS and Docker, and having a lot of fun in the process. I highly recommend this service.
Re:Show HN: Minimalist VPS Provider with Project Atomic / Co... by flippant on Thursday April 16, 2015 @12:28AM (#9385892)
I used Kihi a few months ago. The only reason I stopped using them is because I went on vacation and forgot about it. In ~1 month of using their service, I had one problem that was resolved within an hour.
Re:Show HN: Minimalist VPS Provider with Project Atomic / Co... by sharninder on Thursday April 16, 2015 @03:05AM (#9386325)
How is this different from something like Digital Ocean?
Re:Show HN: Minimalist VPS Provider with Project Atomic / Co... by twelvenmonkeys on Thursday April 16, 2015 @06:49AM (#9387006)
At the moment, there's not much difference other than Atomic Images / Canadian location.

As we move forward however, we'll be focusing more on containerization-oriented features such as integrated support for clustered deployments (RancherOS, Kubernetes) and the ability to deploy multiple master/minions at once with metric collection.