Cloudatcost 80% off
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They just announced 100 free servers and are rolling out discounts throughout the day, starting with 90% off. Despicable.
I found this company about a year ago and couldn't resist temptation. Spent well over $1600 (at 90% off, so like 68vcpu) and haven't been able to host a SINGLE project due to disk instability. VM's go into read-only mode or are simply unconnectable within days of provisioning.
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Never used CloudatCost, can someone bring me up to speed on what is so funny?
I mean their prices are kinda weird... $70 for a dual core, but 50% off of that... one time? Err... one time, per month? I don't get it.
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@BBigford said:
Never used CloudatCost, can someone bring me up to speed on what is so funny?
I mean their prices are kinda weird... $70 for a dual core, but 50% off of that... one time? Err... one time, per month? I don't get it.
Just a one-time payment and you never pay again. It's tempting, but the service is absolutely unusable and has been for going on several months. Their API has been down for nearly a year.
They run these 80-90% off sales every other friday.
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@papercape said:
@BBigford said:
Never used CloudatCost, can someone bring me up to speed on what is so funny?
I mean their prices are kinda weird... $70 for a dual core, but 50% off of that... one time? Err... one time, per month? I don't get it.
Just a one-time payment and you never pay again. It's tempting, but the service is absolutely unusable and has been for going on several months. Their API has been down for nearly a year.
They run these 80-90% off sales every other friday.
Now that's pretty funny. So people paid for a service they haven't used in... a year?
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@BBigford said:
@papercape said:
@BBigford said:
Never used CloudatCost, can someone bring me up to speed on what is so funny?
I mean their prices are kinda weird... $70 for a dual core, but 50% off of that... one time? Err... one time, per month? I don't get it.
Just a one-time payment and you never pay again. It's tempting, but the service is absolutely unusable and has been for going on several months. Their API has been down for nearly a year.
They run these 80-90% off sales every other friday.
Now that's pretty funny. So people paid for a service they haven't used in... a year?
Most of us got our money back from Credit Cards/Paypal.
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I spent 1$ on their lowest tier not too long ago.... I run a small blog on it. Although it crashes every day or so and the speed is abysmal.
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@BBigford said:
@papercape said:
@BBigford said:
Never used CloudatCost, can someone bring me up to speed on what is so funny?
I mean their prices are kinda weird... $70 for a dual core, but 50% off of that... one time? Err... one time, per month? I don't get it.
Just a one-time payment and you never pay again. It's tempting, but the service is absolutely unusable and has been for going on several months. Their API has been down for nearly a year.
They run these 80-90% off sales every other friday.
Now that's pretty funny. So people paid for a service they haven't used in... a year?
Well, the API had been malfunctioning in some capacity since I first became a customer. Recently it seems to have bit the dust entirely.
I kept hope that they would improve, and so, I never asked for a refund. They've gotten much worse...
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@BBigford said:
Never used CloudatCost, can someone bring me up to speed on what is so funny?
I mean their prices are kinda weird... $70 for a dual core, but 50% off of that... one time? Err... one time, per month? I don't get it.
One time but that's all you get to use it too.
Car crashs take them down for days too.. Yet they used pictures from years before crashes as proof they had one recently.
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@Jason said:
@BBigford said:
@papercape said:
@BBigford said:
Never used CloudatCost, can someone bring me up to speed on what is so funny?
I mean their prices are kinda weird... $70 for a dual core, but 50% off of that... one time? Err... one time, per month? I don't get it.
Just a one-time payment and you never pay again. It's tempting, but the service is absolutely unusable and has been for going on several months. Their API has been down for nearly a year.
They run these 80-90% off sales every other friday.
Now that's pretty funny. So people paid for a service they haven't used in... a year?
Most of us got our money back from Credit Cards/Paypal.
How'd you swing that? Wouldn't CloudatCost have to issue the refund?
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@BBigford said:
@Jason said:
@BBigford said:
@papercape said:
@BBigford said:
Never used CloudatCost, can someone bring me up to speed on what is so funny?
I mean their prices are kinda weird... $70 for a dual core, but 50% off of that... one time? Err... one time, per month? I don't get it.
Just a one-time payment and you never pay again. It's tempting, but the service is absolutely unusable and has been for going on several months. Their API has been down for nearly a year.
They run these 80-90% off sales every other friday.
Now that's pretty funny. So people paid for a service they haven't used in... a year?
Most of us got our money back from Credit Cards/Paypal.
How'd you swing that? Wouldn't CloudatCost have to issue the refund?
Nope. The money is taken back from them. They didn't provide the service they agreed too.
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@papercape said:
@BBigford said:
@papercape said:
@BBigford said:
Never used CloudatCost, can someone bring me up to speed on what is so funny?
I mean their prices are kinda weird... $70 for a dual core, but 50% off of that... one time? Err... one time, per month? I don't get it.
Just a one-time payment and you never pay again. It's tempting, but the service is absolutely unusable and has been for going on several months. Their API has been down for nearly a year.
They run these 80-90% off sales every other friday.
Now that's pretty funny. So people paid for a service they haven't used in... a year?
Well, the API had been malfunctioning in some capacity since I first became a customer.
Can you describe that a little for me? Just curious what you experienced so I can relay that to anyone inquiring about the service.
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@BBigford said:
@papercape said:
@BBigford said:
@papercape said:
@BBigford said:
Never used CloudatCost, can someone bring me up to speed on what is so funny?
I mean their prices are kinda weird... $70 for a dual core, but 50% off of that... one time? Err... one time, per month? I don't get it.
Just a one-time payment and you never pay again. It's tempting, but the service is absolutely unusable and has been for going on several months. Their API has been down for nearly a year.
They run these 80-90% off sales every other friday.
Now that's pretty funny. So people paid for a service they haven't used in... a year?
Well, the API had been malfunctioning in some capacity since I first became a customer.
Can you describe that a little for me? Just curious what you experienced so I can relay that to anyone inquiring about the service.
I'm not much of an expert on using API's. There was an android app available that used an apikey generated by the panel. I never could get it to work consistently. Often times it wouldn't connect or wouldn't complete my VM build. Every once in a while I try to connect, but it hasn't worked in like 5-6 months. A twitter user @zackhable wrote a replacement api that works, but I think it violates TOS so I haven't tried it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@NattNatt said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Jason said:
@scottalanmiller said:
That they are advertising a partnership with VMware honestly worries me a lot. That's the same "first red flag" that we had with CloudatCost and why we knew something was wrong there right away. VMware is not cost effective for a cloud provider.
Yep.. Allowing you to have your own private ESXi cloud is one thing.. (rackspace and most will do this if you give them enough $$$)..
But running the whole backbone infustructure on vmware is stupid.
Right, there are good reasons to choose VMware in house, especially for a large enterprise. But Vmware for a commodity public cloud AND using SAN... it was quite obvious that they were trying to buy software rather than having to have even a single person who knew how these things worked.
This cloud is run using openstack - we have a partnership with VMWare for some of our enterprise clients etc, we use all sorts of things depending on what the client wants - everything isn't run off VMWare - but we do have a few large clients that demand it, so we offer it... eCloudFlex is a new solution, built in house using openstack etc, designed for Linux mainly...gives a console as standard, but you can connect pretty much anyway you want (putty etc too) - I just use it as it's handy though, it spins up a new instance in about 30 seconds, so can mess, break stuff, then delete and re-create etc without fear...
What hypervisor are you using? OpenStack can be any, it's just the management layer on top.
I've been told it runs on KVM - I've sent a link to the forum to one of the guys at work that's more knowledgeable on these things (and wants to join the community!)
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@NattNatt said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@NattNatt said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Jason said:
@scottalanmiller said:
That they are advertising a partnership with VMware honestly worries me a lot. That's the same "first red flag" that we had with CloudatCost and why we knew something was wrong there right away. VMware is not cost effective for a cloud provider.
Yep.. Allowing you to have your own private ESXi cloud is one thing.. (rackspace and most will do this if you give them enough $$$)..
But running the whole backbone infustructure on vmware is stupid.
Right, there are good reasons to choose VMware in house, especially for a large enterprise. But Vmware for a commodity public cloud AND using SAN... it was quite obvious that they were trying to buy software rather than having to have even a single person who knew how these things worked.
This cloud is run using openstack - we have a partnership with VMWare for some of our enterprise clients etc, we use all sorts of things depending on what the client wants - everything isn't run off VMWare - but we do have a few large clients that demand it, so we offer it... eCloudFlex is a new solution, built in house using openstack etc, designed for Linux mainly...gives a console as standard, but you can connect pretty much anyway you want (putty etc too) - I just use it as it's handy though, it spins up a new instance in about 30 seconds, so can mess, break stuff, then delete and re-create etc without fear...
What hypervisor are you using? OpenStack can be any, it's just the management layer on top.
I've been told it runs on KVM - I've sent a link to the forum to one of the guys at work that's more knowledgeable on these things (and wants to join the community!)
Cool. KVM is where nearly everyone new goes these days. Xen and KVM are really the only ones that make sense. VMware is way too expensive and limited, Hyper-V even Microsoft won't use for cloud (their cloud runs on Azure, which while related to Hyper-V is not actually Hyper-V.)
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@scottalanmiller said:
@NattNatt said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@NattNatt said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Jason said:
@scottalanmiller said:
That they are advertising a partnership with VMware honestly worries me a lot. That's the same "first red flag" that we had with CloudatCost and why we knew something was wrong there right away. VMware is not cost effective for a cloud provider.
Yep.. Allowing you to have your own private ESXi cloud is one thing.. (rackspace and most will do this if you give them enough $$$)..
But running the whole backbone infustructure on vmware is stupid.
Right, there are good reasons to choose VMware in house, especially for a large enterprise. But Vmware for a commodity public cloud AND using SAN... it was quite obvious that they were trying to buy software rather than having to have even a single person who knew how these things worked.
This cloud is run using openstack - we have a partnership with VMWare for some of our enterprise clients etc, we use all sorts of things depending on what the client wants - everything isn't run off VMWare - but we do have a few large clients that demand it, so we offer it... eCloudFlex is a new solution, built in house using openstack etc, designed for Linux mainly...gives a console as standard, but you can connect pretty much anyway you want (putty etc too) - I just use it as it's handy though, it spins up a new instance in about 30 seconds, so can mess, break stuff, then delete and re-create etc without fear...
What hypervisor are you using? OpenStack can be any, it's just the management layer on top.
I've been told it runs on KVM - I've sent a link to the forum to one of the guys at work that's more knowledgeable on these things (and wants to join the community!)
Cool. KVM is where nearly everyone new goes these days. Xen and KVM are really the only ones that make sense. VMware is way too expensive and limited, Hyper-V even Microsoft won't use for cloud (their cloud runs on Azure, which while related to Hyper-V is not actually Hyper-V.)
Yeah, I've not got experience personally with either of those yet, but then that's never been a part of my job, and it's generally stuff I taught myself when I was bored in order to progress myself, not for work purposes etc
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I'm enjoying KVM right now. Once I get my home desktop & a few hours of time together, I'll be enjoying XenServer again, lol.
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@NattNatt said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@NattNatt said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@NattNatt said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Jason said:
@scottalanmiller said:
That they are advertising a partnership with VMware honestly worries me a lot. That's the same "first red flag" that we had with CloudatCost and why we knew something was wrong there right away. VMware is not cost effective for a cloud provider.
Yep.. Allowing you to have your own private ESXi cloud is one thing.. (rackspace and most will do this if you give them enough $$$)..
But running the whole backbone infustructure on vmware is stupid.
Right, there are good reasons to choose VMware in house, especially for a large enterprise. But Vmware for a commodity public cloud AND using SAN... it was quite obvious that they were trying to buy software rather than having to have even a single person who knew how these things worked.
This cloud is run using openstack - we have a partnership with VMWare for some of our enterprise clients etc, we use all sorts of things depending on what the client wants - everything isn't run off VMWare - but we do have a few large clients that demand it, so we offer it... eCloudFlex is a new solution, built in house using openstack etc, designed for Linux mainly...gives a console as standard, but you can connect pretty much anyway you want (putty etc too) - I just use it as it's handy though, it spins up a new instance in about 30 seconds, so can mess, break stuff, then delete and re-create etc without fear...
What hypervisor are you using? OpenStack can be any, it's just the management layer on top.
I've been told it runs on KVM - I've sent a link to the forum to one of the guys at work that's more knowledgeable on these things (and wants to join the community!)
Cool. KVM is where nearly everyone new goes these days. Xen and KVM are really the only ones that make sense. VMware is way too expensive and limited, Hyper-V even Microsoft won't use for cloud (their cloud runs on Azure, which while related to Hyper-V is not actually Hyper-V.)
Yeah, I've not got experience personally with either of those yet, but then that's never been a part of my job, and it's generally stuff I taught myself when I was bored in order to progress myself, not for work purposes etc
They are the only things that we use ourselves. About thirteen years on Xen and one on KVM.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@NattNatt said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@NattNatt said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@NattNatt said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Jason said:
@scottalanmiller said:
That they are advertising a partnership with VMware honestly worries me a lot. That's the same "first red flag" that we had with CloudatCost and why we knew something was wrong there right away. VMware is not cost effective for a cloud provider.
Yep.. Allowing you to have your own private ESXi cloud is one thing.. (rackspace and most will do this if you give them enough $$$)..
But running the whole backbone infustructure on vmware is stupid.
Right, there are good reasons to choose VMware in house, especially for a large enterprise. But Vmware for a commodity public cloud AND using SAN... it was quite obvious that they were trying to buy software rather than having to have even a single person who knew how these things worked.
This cloud is run using openstack - we have a partnership with VMWare for some of our enterprise clients etc, we use all sorts of things depending on what the client wants - everything isn't run off VMWare - but we do have a few large clients that demand it, so we offer it... eCloudFlex is a new solution, built in house using openstack etc, designed for Linux mainly...gives a console as standard, but you can connect pretty much anyway you want (putty etc too) - I just use it as it's handy though, it spins up a new instance in about 30 seconds, so can mess, break stuff, then delete and re-create etc without fear...
What hypervisor are you using? OpenStack can be any, it's just the management layer on top.
I've been told it runs on KVM - I've sent a link to the forum to one of the guys at work that's more knowledgeable on these things (and wants to join the community!)
Cool. KVM is where nearly everyone new goes these days. Xen and KVM are really the only ones that make sense. VMware is way too expensive and limited, Hyper-V even Microsoft won't use for cloud (their cloud runs on Azure, which while related to Hyper-V is not actually Hyper-V.)
Yeah, I've not got experience personally with either of those yet, but then that's never been a part of my job, and it's generally stuff I taught myself when I was bored in order to progress myself, not for work purposes etc
They are the only things that we use ourselves. About thirteen years on Xen and one on KVM.
Will have to check them out and get learning then!
