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Well, I don't plan on doing cpu mining at all. In fact, I plan on launching a few droplets as a test for no more than say 3-4 hours , ingest data and process it, then push it to Spaces or on the Block storage.
If I were to use 8 x 1gb 3vcpu flexible droplets instead of the cpu optimized droplets for a few hours, would my stuff get shut down. But based from your reply, you are more worry about people burning the cpu 24/7 for a whole year or months, instead of the people using the droplets for temporary batch processing workload that won't take more than a few hours.
My honest feeling here is that you would be perfectly fine with any droplet in that case. If reality proves differently, let me know and I'll make it up to you, we'll both learn from it, and I'll adjust how myself and my team answer that question moving forward as a result
My philosophy on this sort of stuff is that if you are doing things that require specific CPU constraints and resources you'll know about it and should choose a service which offers you those. If you aren't then generally you aren't that special and don't have to worry about it.
Most providers are quite accomidating for the occasional IOPS/CPU burnage, if you're not doing it for more than a specified amount of time.
Even @VirMach has loosened up on this. When I first beat my VPS by doing an apt-get dist-upgrade, I got a nastygram. They're much more accomidating, but if you do more than an occasional use, everyone is going to tell you to get your own box, unless you're @willie.
I've never had any complaints from them about my Elasticsearch cluster... and that's 16 $5 data nodes that peak up to 100% IOPS and CPU at the exact same time (for minutes).
I'd say go for it.
Hold my beer.
Just kidding.
Nah, I also suggest getting your own box (or one with no-fooling dedicated resources). Once you do that though (contra @WSS), you are allowed to use it as if you owned it.
You seemed to have a different stance when I took your daughter out for prom.
You only paid for the shared hosting plan, not the dedi.
I think the question on everyone's mind is: how much for the dedi?
From what I recall, something like commitment is 600 months+. Anything less, and there are penalties.
Too rich for my blood, I fold.
..not to mention she's got a big problem with accepting patches for Meltdown.
If he actually has a daughter these jokes are suddenly mean and uncalled for.
Sincerely,.
Over protective father
I honestly have no idea; I figured the 50 year commitment was enough to cover bases in the event of being slightly-applicable.
Besides, since he houses the LET $7 Pentabyte gay porn server, why'd he have one?
Just when I was starting to do some resizes. <_<
Oh good, I was about to ask if that went out today. We really should have sent it earlier (like anticipating the event rather than reacting to it), something to do better and learn from.
Is there any network performance difference between AMS2 and AMS3? Both would route/peer similarly wouldn't they?
@Xei My testing earlier last year showed them to be basically the same.
I don't see why you would go AMS2 unless you are already deployed there (as is the case with us, and many others).
I'm actually surprised there has been no attempt at bridging, migrating or otherwise merging the datacenters (as occurred with AMS1).
..have you ever tried to get @jarland on a plane with only those wimpy little shot-sized bottles at $5/pop? They'd be broke before it even left DFW!
I'm not sure what the future holds, but I wouldn't rule anything out.
I also confirm no IP changes occurred when I resized 3 Droplets to the new pricing (IPv4 & IPv6). Everything on the servers came back fine after reboot, just with more RAM and disk available to the OS. I'm using CentOS 6 and 7, though I would bet all other modern Linux OSs will also handle the resize.
Thanks. What would be the purpose or benefit in bridging, migrating and merging? Just noticed AMS3 has block will check it out.
@xei So that those in AMS2 can move without IP renumbering
Hey @Jarland, do you know when are you guys going to have proper billing for your droplets. I really don't like the fact that launching a $5 droplet is not .007 but always .01 for 1 hour. You guys round everything to the nearest cent on every individual launch instead of the final bill.
It makes it counter productive launching 10-100 small $5 droplets for 1 hour since it will be 30% more expensive than what 42% more expensive than what is listed there.
I'd expect since they plan on doing per second billing making it more granular would be part of that.
You can't actually charge fractions of a cent though so that's kind of the thought process there as I understand it. It's either rounded to that or every droplet is free for X hours (with how we currently calculate), which kind of adds a new abuse angle or the removal of further function on accounts for abuse prevention. I get the annoyance though, I would like to see a better balance to this as well.
I can tell you that billing improvements are on the table, and I do not currently know just what all that means. For what that's worth
I think per minute billing is more rational.
Their most expensive plan is 960 usd/month, or 2.2 cents per minute. I pressume they want to get to something like "per cent billing" instead of "per second billing". That would mean that the most expensive plan would be billed a cent every 27 seconds, excluding tax. Less if tax is included.
Cheapest (5 usd/month) plan would be billed a cent every 5184 seconds, or just over 86 minutes.
That's at least how I'd set up something like this (per-cent billing instead of per-second), to avoid billing fractions of cents.
maybe tally the differences for end of month billing adjustments ?
so if person uses droplet for 1hr per day for 30 days