@Mr_Tom said:
In terms of "big" as in I assume lots of people have heard of them then 1&1, ukfast, uk2, etc all spring to mind as well. But, they're also not providers I would choose to use myself.
Do they spring to mind immediately when you think of big players in the VPS market though?
@AnthonySmith said: Do they spring to mind immediately when you think of big players in the VPS market though?
Perhaps not ukfast as they're more dedis, but 1&1 and uk2 would - I remember finding them years ago when searching for a VPS but ended up with Bytemark.
Once you're big and cloudy, preemptable (GCS) or spot (AWS) seems like an important product. You have to price the regular VM's high enough that supply exceeds demand and there is always stock available. But that means you have idle hardware most of the time. So spot/preemptable gives you a way to turn it into revenue.
My first VPS was PhotonVPS. It’s one of the big providers back in 2011. I didn’t know I could get VPS for $7 at that time. Linode was the biggest at that time.
Right now, I have accounts in Google Cloud and Scaleway. I only use a paid product for a few hours, such as compiling and testing software.
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When one of them experiences some sort of hiccups, we realise their existence due to the Collateral damage caused by the extent of their footprint on the internet.
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Do they spring to mind immediately when you think of big players in the VPS market though?
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Perhaps not ukfast as they're more dedis, but 1&1 and uk2 would - I remember finding them years ago when searching for a VPS but ended up with Bytemark.
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Once you're big and cloudy, preemptable (GCS) or spot (AWS) seems like an important product. You have to price the regular VM's high enough that supply exceeds demand and there is always stock available. But that means you have idle hardware most of the time. So spot/preemptable gives you a way to turn it into revenue.
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My first VPS was PhotonVPS. It’s one of the big providers back in 2011. I didn’t know I could get VPS for $7 at that time.
Linode was the biggest at that time.
Right now, I have accounts in Google Cloud and Scaleway. I only use a paid product for a few hours, such as compiling and testing software.
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They are hard coded into the internet infrastructure like,
the oxygen in the air we need to breath.
When one of them experiences some sort of hiccups, we realise their existence due to the Collateral damage caused by the extent of their footprint on the internet.