[HCoop-Discuss] VPS only looks cheap compared to NYC

[Daniel Margolis]

I suppose I should have been more clear, then. "Would save us money over our
current setup." Your evidence seems to agree with that.

If Rackmounted is cheaper yet, I'm all for it.
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Adam Megacz <megacz at hcoop.net> wrote:

>
> Daniel Margolis <dan at af0.net> writes:
> > On technical grounds, everyone who's commented seems to agree that a
> > VPS would save us money.
>
> VPS solutions seem cheap because we pay ultra-premium prices for our
> current installation.  NYC equals $$$.
>
> I host gentzen.megacz.com with rackmounted.com for $55/month.  My
> machine has 16GB of ram; slicehost wants $800/month (!?!?!) for that
> and linode doesn't even offer it.
>
> I have 1TB of disk and a pair of opterons at my disposal, remote
> reboot, and (by special agreement) for $5/month my service processor
> gets its own ethernet port.  In 17 months I have never needed to
> request "remote hands".
>
> The key to understanding VPS pricing is realizing that the one scarce
> resource they can't multiplex is RAM.  How much RAM you get basically
> tells you how many people you're sharing a machine with (unless
> they're stupid, the provider will be packing their machines to the
> gills with memory).  If they're skimpy on the memory, odds are they're
> oversubscribing their physical hardware.
>
> I don't have strong opinions one way or the other on the VPS-or-not
> decision.  I just felt compelled to correct what have become
> increasingly inaccurate factual statements.  I don't want to see a
> decision made based on incorrect data.
>
>  - a
>
>
>
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