Anyone familiar with Exoscale?

BeardyUnixGuy

I came across a Swiss provider, Exoscale, and wondered if anyone has some experience with or opinions on this specific host? I think their prices seem reasonable considering that they're hosted in Switzerland.

Also, does anyone know any other quality Swiss-based providers? I'm hoping for a KVM provider that provides VNC/console access from boot-up, along with the ability to attach ISOs (just Ubuntu or Fedora).

hostnoob

I know EDIS have a Switzerland location and they offer great quality in my experience but I'm not sure if they provide custom ISOs (but they do have ISOs available which you can manually mount)

The only problem is their KVM plans have extremely low disk space.

BeardyUnixGuy

Thanks @hostnoob, I'll keep them in mind for other projects but they're based out of Austria and not Switzerland.

hostnoob

Ah you're right, sorry. I thought you just needed it hosted in Switzerland.

You can check ExoticVPS, but I'm not sure which are based in Switzerland (and I've never heard of any of them anyway)

https://www.exoticvps.com/country/switzerland

MarkTurner

Exoscale are great! We use them a lot for prototyping and testing

BeardyUnixGuy

@MarkTurner, any chance of a benchmark paste/reference including intl connectivity speed? they using KVM?

MarkTurner

BeardyUnixGuy said: any chance of a benchmark paste/reference including intl connectivity speed? they using KVM?

Its all KVM and Cloudstack

I will try to arrange some benchmarks later in the week, I don't have access to Cloudstack to spin up another instance.

rm_

We talked about this one on IRC, on the surface it looks like your average DO clone, but if you check closely the bandwidth pricing is insane and convoluted, the "free 100 GB" only apply if you use it as evenly as possible, else it's only 140 MB per machine, and for example to get DO's or Vultr's regular 1TB transfer you would pay 18 EUR just for the bandwidth here, on top of the cost of the VPS itself. Unless you really really need Switzerland, better avoid.

BeardyUnixGuy

Great catch @rm_! I didn't see that small print.

raindog308

rm_ said: We talked about this one on IRC, on the surface it looks like your average DO clone, but if you check closely the bandwidth pricing is insane and convoluted, the "free 100 GB" only apply if you use it as evenly as possible, else it's only 140 MB per machine, and for example to get DO's or Vultr's regular 1TB transfer you would pay 18 EUR just for the bandwidth here, on top of the cost of the VPS itself. Unless you really really need Switzerland, better avoid.

You are hereby awarded a LowEndConsumerAdvocate Award. Nice work.

trvz

There's no provider that meets all your criteria.

If you want quality providers with more data transfer included, expect to pay ten times as much, but still without custom ISO functionality.

Try to live with exoscale instead.

retrack

Hello,

Just wanted to comment that this has now been upgraded to 1TB free.

Plus, it is aggregated, so for example if you have 1 instance doing load balancer and 9 web servers, all your trafic goes through the load balancer. Then the load balancer can have 10 TB of free trafic as it is aggregated per account.

Clouvider

Great necro.

plueschopath

You still have to use it as evenly as possible, otherwise you will pay extra.

Means: 1.42 GB per hour per instance as free bandwidth.
Which isn't that much...