VPS hosting comparison spreadsheet

[Andrew Kember]

I've made a Google Spreadsheet comparing the prices of Amazon EC2, Joyent, Linode and Dreamhost:

VPS hosting comparison spreadsheet

I've tried to think through all relevant costs, but please do your own due diligence before parting with your hard-earned!

If you'd like me to add a supplier to the sheet, please reply with as many of the numbers / details as you can!

If I've made a mistake, please let me know and I'll try to fix it.

[Ernest Bako]

Ooops, I posted this to the wrong thread - repeat here:

Gandi.net, is totally outstanding, in every way. Plus they also now offer VPS hosting at much, much more reasonable prices. 

They also guarantee that your domain is really yours and can not be hijacked. Not to mention the EU privacy laws and protection. 

You also get your domain e-mail problem solved, on their dime, along with your yearly domain registration. 

Also, you never pay tax on their services, if you are outside the US. 

I did my own research, quite some time ago. 

They are among the best DNS registrars world-wide, if not the best. 

I am a highly satisfied customer of theirs, that's all.

https://www.gandi.net/hosting/

It's worth checking out and adding it to the list.

[Ernest Bako]

I'd drop all the NA VPS providers from that list: Do take a look at Gandi, you'll see the difference

https://www.gandi.net/hosting/

https://www.gandi.net/domain/simple-hosting

It pays to be informed; open your eyes, or open your wallet!

• 10GB to 1TB of storage

• up to 5M pageviews

• Up to 100 domains

• unlimited databases

• Datacenter choice: USA or Europe

[Ernest Bako]

I also like their corporate tag line -

Gandi.net - no bullshit.

That's where I'll go when I'm done with Joyent. 

I'd like to try and see how the 5 year offer setup might go and where all this public negotiation goes. 

I'd like to stay with Joyent, I think I am more fond of them, then they may be of my presence on their cloud, in spite of all this. On the other hand, as a VC200, the $200 would buy three years of hosting at Gandi and a truly outstanding service and offering. 

That being said, I have not yet tested out Gandi's VPS offering, so I'd like to hear an opinion from somebody who already uses it. I will test it though in the future, I think they are also offering a way to do a trial. Pretty much everybody does.

[Andrew Kember]

I've added a representative service from Gandi to the sheet. It's pretty flexible, and cheap. Looking at the sign-up, I do think they will add VAT to my bill, but apart from that, you're spot on, Ernest (and very enthusiastic!).

[Ernest Bako]

Did you notice the low end offering, with no bullshit marketing buzzwords? 

Marketing words like "smart" (everybody likes to think they are), and "cloud" - today's de facto IT buzzword and promise of corporate IT heaven on Cloud9... :-)

Gandi's offering is called "Simple Hosting". 

It also costs $5/month (+VAT, where applicable). 

That is 50% less then anybody else on that spreadsheet. I'd include this offer too. 

Some may not need the higher-end "Gandi VPS - hosting for geeks". Even non-geeks understand that, right?

[lgpiper]

Perhaps I missed it, but the Gandi simple offering is rather limited. In general, that's probably ok, but I couldn't see, for example, that I could use SSH to write cron scripts, or play with making up web programs to do stuff like sift through raw log files. If all I wanted to do was run a basic TextPattern site or two, Gandi seems ok, but I like the option to have more flexibility. It was also not clear to me that I could keep my domains registered elsewhere, and Gandi is a bit pricey as a registrar. I'm also unwilling to let Google data mine all my various email accounts, so I like having them go through my host. It wasn't clear if Gandi would allow me to set up multiple email accounts for each of my dozen or so domains. I know, everyone says I should use fastmail, but that requires me to have gainful employment. I really was dumb enough to think my upfront "investment" in Joyent would carry me through more than four years of unemployment. 

I realize this is sort of off-topic for a VPS thread, but since other folks were pimping Gandi, I thought I'd toss in my $0.02. 

[gtcaz]

Rackspace Cloud (Next Generation/Open Cloud)

Ram: 512MB

CPU: 1 vCPU (burstable)

Disk space: 20GB

Bandwidth: (.18/GB In - No Charge Out)

Hourly fee: $0.022

Monthly fee:

Annual fee:

Backup Images: $0.10/GB per month

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/servers/pricing/

[jonto]

I probably should have posted my other question in one of these existing VPS threads. I like where this comparison slide is going. What about data center locations as another data point?

[Andrew Kember]

gtcaz: I've added Rackspace to the spreadsheet. Thanks for doing all the hard work for me :-)

[gtcaz]

On Thursday, August 23, 2012 2:50:15 AM UTC-5, Andrew Kember wrote:

gtcaz: I've added Rackspace to the spreadsheet. Thanks for doing all the hard work for me :-)

You bet -- thanks for the chart! It's interesting to see how Joyent has come into line with other providers. I remember a time when you paid a premium over similar offerings from Slicehost and Linode. Things get complicated fast once you move into more complex scenarios, of course, and price isn't the the only consideration in the value proposition.

[gtcaz]

Oh, one other consideration. Control panels. I've only used Rackspace and Linode's (and Slicehost, RIP). That was a big disadvantage for Joyent. No emergency terminal if SSH was down, no way (w/o a support ticket and manual intervention) to blow away and re-provision instances. No way to snapshot an image.

At this very moment my "lifetime" (haha) Accelerator is not responding and I have no idea why. I don't think it's available via any control panel. 

Anyone know how full-featured the current Joyent admin panel is in terms of managing instances?

[gtcaz]

(Oops. Turns out my VPN was blocking SSH. Still!)

[Andrew Kember]

Yes, I was most surprised that Amazon came out at a similar price point, although signing up for three years is quite a commitment. I'm curious to know what sort of support Joyent offer for the SmartMachines. For the shared hosting, they supported a good chunk of the software stack for us, but as they're moving towards Amazon territory, I imagine the level of support is (by necessity) different.

Amazon has vast flexibility and resources in its offerings. Lots of the components are fantastically cheap too, in comparison to other VPS providers. However, if you want some support with anything you've installed on there - right down to the OS, then you're totally out of luck.

Linode has a more focussed offering, and it's support encompasses the whole deal too. You get a good deal more CPU for your money, and out-of-band control of the linode, but adding resources (disk, RAM) is quite expensive. On the plus-side, for most of us, the provided resources will be quite enough.

[jonlandrum]

Nice

[jonlandrum]

For me, it was down to Linode and Gandi. Both are no-bullshit companies (and one proudly advertises that fact.) In the end, I get better response times from Linode's Dallas data center than Gandi's US data center. Somewhere around Baltimore, I think?

[kmsd]

For the spreadsheet. Joyent gives you 20TB of bandwidth monthly. You can see it on this page: http://www.joyent.com/products/smartmachines/features/

On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:54:40 AM UTC-5, Andrew Kember wrote:

[Andrew Kember]

Done - thank you!

[resist...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:29:57 AM UTC-7, lgpiper wrote:
> Perhaps I missed it, but the Gandi simple offering is rather limited. In general, that's probably ok, but I couldn't see, for example, that I could use SSH to write cron scripts, or play with making up web programs to do stuff like sift through raw log files. If all I wanted to do was run a basic TextPattern site or two, Gandi seems ok, but I like the option to have more flexibility. It was also not clear to me that I could keep my domains registered elsewhere, and Gandi is a bit pricey as a registrar. I'm also unwilling to let Google data mine all my various email accounts, so I like having them go through my host. It wasn't clear if Gandi would allow me to set up multiple email accounts for each of my dozen or so domains. I know, everyone says I should use fastmail, but that requires me to have gainful employment. I really was dumb enough to think my upfront "investment" in Joyent would carry me through more than four years of unemployment. 
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> I realize this is sort of off-topic for a VPS thread, but since other folks were pimping Gandi, I thought I'd toss in my $0.02. 

Just for clarity, you get 5 emails accounts free per domain, you can have your domains elsewhere and still use Simple Hosting (just need to insert a TXT record in your DNS). Yes, SSH is not allowed on Simple Hosting, so it is really... Simple!

[lgpiper]

On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 3:59:33 PM UTC-4, resist...@gmail.com wrote:

On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:29:57 AM UTC-7, lgpiper wrote:

> ...

> I realize this is sort of off-topic for a VPS thread, but since other folks were pimping Gandi, I thought I'd toss in my $0.02. 

Just for clarity, you get 5 emails accounts free per domain, you can have your domains elsewhere and still use Simple Hosting (just need to insert a TXT record in your DNS). Yes, SSH is not allowed on Simple Hosting, so it is really... Simple!

Thanks for the clarification. If I didn't need a couple of cron jobs, Gandi might work for most of my needs. Perhaps, I could figure out a way to do all this via sftp, but I'm not sure it's worth the extra effort. 

[goo...@rupertgroup.com]

Thanks for this information all it is great. I have a website and application that runs on the LAMP stack and am growing to the point that I have to get off a shared server and on to a VPS. It is an ecommerce system that have some background procs that I run in cron jobs. There is a lot of email communications between my site tot eh providers and the customers. I am seriously looking at dreamhost but that have an SMTP limitation of 100 emails / hr because there are afraid of spammers. I don't know how they can attract a larger business as I could see this as a major limitation. I have been looking at some of the others trying to find out if they have this limitation also. Any thoughts from anyone?

Thanks,
Mark

[infopr...@gmail.com]

Vào 22:54:40 UTC+7 Thứ tư, ngày 22 tháng tám năm 2012, Andrew Kember đã viết:

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