@PSX_Defector said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Around here they are near Virginia Tech and offer very low paying jobs so some of the poor support is expected.

They famously pay way, way under market in San Antonio. Pretty much anyone good working there can move on almost instantly making for high churn and the top 50% of the company attritioning out year over year.

Guess I should be glad they didn't call me back when I was shitcanned from the big red V. They were opening up a datacenter in Grapevine and were looking for Windows support goons.

Although it's kind of nice getting poached by another provider in the industry. 🙂

They have a reputation for paying half of standard industry rates wherever they are. I don't think you'd have been interested at all.

That's pretty major! I would definitely worry a bit about Vultr for production at this point. We are using it in this one instance for something internal that has a good amount of ability to go offline for a while without it being an issue. Vultr is saving us a fortune in this instance.

Amazon and Azure are really the big players now for production stuff. Rackspace is there but their quality is definitely lagging. We still use them (for ML for example) but are using them less and less. I've run into almost non-stop issues with using them for anything of scale. Their support is just so poor.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

I just realized what the "Big red V" is....

Not to be confused with the big pink V.

And what is that?

I have no idea either.

And, in this case, who offers a truly UK cloud IaaS product? All of the key players are American.

@Carnival-Boy said:

I agree that the term "unlimited" is often abused though. I don't know if it's the same in the US, but we had a big problem over here with ISPs offering "unlimited" internet usage that was actually capped. I think the term was "Unlimited - subject to fair usage policy" where fair usage was an arbitrary figure set by the ISP.

Is that not protected by the Trades Description Act?

@scottalanmiller said in CloudatCost Issues:

Damn. Yeah they had me snookered. At least to the benefit of the doubt level.

Yeah. I used them for a while and when it worked, it was good. But by the time they started trying to bill me for the maintenance or whatever, I had already stopped using them due to the number of problems.

@nadnerB said:

@tonyshowoff said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Here is what they eventually said...

Thank you for the follow up on this issue. After closer review, it appears the build failed to complete. This resulted in the droplet not being created. You will want to re-attempt creating the droplet. If you have any further questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to let us know.

Complain I say, complain!

Lol, love the Foghorn Leghorn reference

Suh, I challenge you to a duel

Digital Ocean is great! One of my favorites!

@scottalanmiller said in My Misadventures with Cloud At Cost:

I always recommend CloudFlare, it's the best DNS host I have found.

I am more of a ClouDNS + BunnyCDN fan

CloudAtCost has completely revoked their "free for life" products that people have already paid for in full and is now simply charging for them - even ones that customers already own. Customers are now being extorted to pay annually for something they were sold specifically so that they would not have to pay for in this way. The service is no longer a scam on the technical level, it is now a full scam on the billing and marketing level as well.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/14009/cloudatcost-turning-to-extortion

@scottalanmiller said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

Sounds cool. I nominate @coliver as the system administrator 😉

My lad may become ML's youngest member 🙂

@Mike-Ralston admins some already. He built one in the NTG lab last week.

It's currently undergoing some changes, as a server cannot realistically be run with more than a few people without any plugins. I'll get right on working on it more, though!

I second Digital Ocean. They have 1 click installers for wordpress.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/one-click-install-wordpress-on-ubuntu-14-04-with-digitalocean