Brightbox launches new lower-cost cloud server tier (opens in new tab)

(brightbox.com)

27 pointsjeremyjarvis12y ago11 comments

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(Full disclosure: I'm a former employee, still have personal servers as a customer.)

Awesome news, still find the service provides more than other UK/EU providers. (I don't use US providers personally mostly because of the added ping times.)

Having things like the cloud firewall & being able to migrate an IP from one server to another _instantly_ just makes life so much easier. Said services being cheaper is only going to make my wallet happier :-)

harrytuttle12y ago

http://bigv.io/

Cheaper, better, waaaay more flexible, entirely UK based (this might be a good/bad thing depending on where you are)

jeremyjarvisOP12y ago

better and waaaay more flexible how? genuine question.

harrytuttle12y ago

Bigger VMs (180Gb, 16 cores, 8 discs up to 16TiB storage), better basic VM spec, graded discs (guaranteed SATA, archive, SAS, SSD), much cheaper basic data included, live migration, integration with their dedicated servers, managed service, generally cheaper, been around years (as bytemark.co.uk), own DC, own Internet AS + network and peering, IPv6.

Ok and they use KVM instead of Xen with virtio drivers.

Paper about their systems: http://blog.bytemark.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Design...

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caiusdurling12y ago

(Full disclosure: I'm a former employee, still have personal servers as a customer.)

Awesome news, still find the service provides more than other UK/EU providers. (I don't use US providers personally mostly because of the added ping times.)

harrytuttle12y ago

http://bigv.io/

Cheaper, better, waaaay more flexible, entirely UK based (this might be a good/bad thing depending on where you are)

jeremyjarvisOP12y ago

better and waaaay more flexible how? genuine question.

harrytuttle12y ago

Ok and they use KVM instead of Xen with virtio drivers.

Paper about their systems: http://blog.bytemark.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Design...

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