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Re:EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @08:51AM (#15806714)

awesome stuff! Great to see AWS pushing things around the baremetal problem set.

Re:ARMv8 in the Datacenter – 96 physical cores 0.50/hr on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @10:46PM (#12964397)

we managed to get more online -- please go ahead and try again!

Re:ARMv8 in the Datacenter – 96 physical cores 0.50/hr on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @03:32PM (#12961939)

Yes, we are considering a Type 0 ARM server, but we are still working through the proper design to enable full Armv8 (vs v7).

Re:ARMv8 in the Datacenter – 96 physical cores 0.50/hr on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @02:10PM (#12961170)

FYI I'm from Packet. Agreed reliability is important (I'll let others comment on our own record) but I'd say there is significant workload via spot market, batch processing, etc that doesn't need uptime and is interested in cost.

Also, I've seen most users want 99.9+% uptime. 2% downtime is 14 hours in a short month. People would probably get angry about that...

Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @01:58PM (#11816656)

are there any performance metrics for Tarus yet?

Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @01:51PM (#11816591)

what is the existing alternative for storage in distributed container environments?

Re:AWS vs. Packet.net – Why We Left AWS on Friday May 20, 2016 @08:28PM (#11742546)

So $0.05/hr is pretty cheap, but agreed free trial is better. We made a little page with $25 on it if you'd like to try it out! https://www.packet.net/promo/hacker-news/

Re:Starter VPS: New Affordable Variants on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:39PM (#11457293)

Howdy - Zac here from Packet.

The clients of ours that leverage the by-the-hour model generally use the same devops tools (Terraform, Docker Machine, Ansible, etc) against our API to provision and orchestrate bare metal that they would against AWS or DO to do the same with VM's.

The use case drivers for those who choose bare metal often seem to be price/performance ratios, network, bring your own hypervisor or not use one, etc.

Re:Test your BIOS and share your results on GitHub on Monday February 08, 2016 @12:18PM (#11059386)

such an interesting thread, thanks for bringing this up!

At Packet, we've been working to support CoreOS and their Distributed Trusted Computing (https://tectonic.com/trusted-computing/) for our on-demand bare metal product. This relies on UEFI vs traditional BIOS. Reading up on this I've certainly learned a ton! A good background article I read was https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-...

Re:Tiingo – Pay-what-you-want “high-end” financial tools on Saturday December 19, 2015 @07:57PM (#10765588)

I've met Rishi @ Tiingo a few times and the fact of the matter is he is super passionate about liberating financial data and tools. I think that his pricing model and generosity are truly born from his genuine interest and love of the product. Seems strange, but its true! Hey anything to break up the 2.5k/mo bloomberg stranglehold....

Re:NVMe, the fast future for SSDs on Saturday April 11, 2015 @01:43PM (#9359981)

awesome read, can't wait to see your results on performance, etc.

Re:How We Failed at OpenStack on Monday January 19, 2015 @05:33PM (#8914554)

@AndyNemmity I totally agree - the Ironic guys (particularly jroll) are awesome and were very helpful.

Re:Global Routing with Anycasted DNS. Teardown: NSONE on Thursday November 20, 2014 @11:33AM (#8636531)

Great read and really does an awesome job showing not only the tech of what NSOne has built, but the 'why' behind the 'how'. DNS is such a deceptively simplistic service, but I think that's only due to the lack of real innovation in the space. NSOne is doing an awesome job changing that. Thanks @chris and @kris ;-)