[Sysadmin] crashes

[Dean Mah]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:03 PM, David Kaufman <david at gigawatt.com> wrote:
> On 6/11/2012 1:39 PM, William Anderson wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Dean Mah<dean.mah at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> The box keeps crashing today.  What are the chances we can replace the
>>> hardware?
>>
>>
>> The box has been crashing for months, it seems.  How much are we
>> paying a month for this again?  I've genuinely forgotten.
>
>
> $44.84/month!
>
> And I'm sure they'd love us to leave.  This is ServerMatrix pricing, from
> years ago.  Since then, they merged with EV-1, became ThePlanet for a few
> years and were then bought by the current incarnation, SoftLayer.com whose
> cheapest dedicated server is about $150/month :-)
>
> Although I bet we would be fine on a virtual server, which just about every
> hosting provider offers now, usually for between $30 and $50 a month for
> entry-level cpu, ram and storage specs.
>
> SoftLayer's are about $50/month, Amazon EC2 and Rackspace Cloud pricing is
> closer to $35.  Lots of other major reputable hosting providers' cold host
> us for about the same too LiquidWeb $50 (http://www.liquidweb.com/vps/)
> Peer1's cloud is only $30 (https://www.zunicore.com/ with a 14 day free
> trial! can you say "free migration time"? lol. As if.), and of course,
> racing for the bottom, are VPS's from all of the hosting industry's Big Box
> Stores (Verio, 1and1 and GoDaddy) all essentially pinned at $30 a month:
>
>  http://www.verio.com/web-hosting/vps-virtual-private-server/
>  http://www.1and1.com/VirtualServer
>  http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/virtual-dedicated-servers.aspx
>
> I guess there's no price fixing collusion going on there :-)
>
> Anyway, I've done several Amazon EC2 clusters this past year for clients at
> the day job, so... what the hell, right? :-)
>
> -dave

I've not used any of the services, what sort of bandwidth costs are there?

Dean