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Need a Windows VM provider that can start 100~200 VMs within a short time
phoenixinter
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I'm working on a project which requires using 100 ~ 200 Windows VMs within a short time period (say several hours). I won't be able to use EC2 or Azure. I was trying to use Vultr in the past several weeks. I have two concerns:
1) Starting 100 ~ 200 VMs in Vultr usually takes a long time.
2) Some VMs even cannot get started.
Can you recommend a Windows VM provider which are able to start a large number of VM instances in a short time?
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Why can't you use Azure or EC2? These are the only providers I can think of for this sort of thing.
budget ?
The IP ranges of Azure / EC2 have already been banned for this project so I cannot use them.
@drserver Are you up for a challenge? ;-) Give him a shot, you'll find only a great service and friendly/knowledgable support.
DigitalOcean?
No Winblows on the DigitalOcean.
Ah, that'll teach me to skim read.
Three questions:
Get Incero's hourly dedicated server and create VM's by yourself.
I was actually talking to their live chat guys and got this absolutely insane response.
Edit: Apparently, Incero Instant is discontinued.
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What's your 'price range'? I doubt even the regular dedicated server customers pay $15,000/mo with 2 year contract.
$60-80/mth.
Do you actually plan on keeping these instances, or only launching them for a few hours and then killing them?
What is your budget?
Hello @phoenixinter
We can try working this out for you. Please check your PM
Thanks and Regards
If Quadranet did instant dedicated servers that would be amazing :O
Solution: login to your web server and unban the IP addresses.
What about runabove.com? Windows run smoothly on smallest plan
If he wants all his boxes to disappear randomly, then sure, go with RunAbove.
So in other words you are abusing someone else's services and they don't like it, so you need to keep running through and trashing someone's IP addresses.
Get one powerful windows instance somewhere and run it through 200 small proxies elsewhere?
Rent a dedicated server hourly, stick proxmox on it and run your own VM's
Hi, I'll only launch them for a few hours and then kill them. But I do need to use them continuously for about a month, i.e. I'll use them several hours everyday.
Nope. I'm testing services of my company, but we've already banned EC2 and Azure IP ranges so it's no use to use these VMs and test them.
Why Windows?
C# code base (and I've tested that Mono won't support the code...)
I still don't understand why you can't simply unban the IP ranges for the duration of the test? Your explanation doesn't really make sense. This seems like the best solution to me.
Why? I'm struggling to think of a legitimate reason why someone would block all of EC2 and all of Azure. I can't even imagine how many web sites/services you have cut off, across such a random swath of the Internet that there is no specific content you're blocking, just...EC2- and Azure-hosting sites?
I'm not even sure how you're know what their ranges are. Or why you would do all that work to specifically hunt down EC2/Azure ranges and block them.
I'm sure it couldn't be because you are the one banned there...
Well, anyways, it doesn't matter - the good news is that you can use Rackspace or Google Compute for your needs.
Oh, wait, let me guess...those ranges are "banned" as well...
White list the IP assigned to you and run your web app. Then block the IPs again.
By your explanation I get an itching feeling that this project of yours is not approved by the company owning the website.