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If it's for a virtual machine, that's pretty weird.
If you need to rent a KVM for a dedi or something like that, that's a different story.
No I do not. It takes up a bit of disk space and there is some setup time so I can see how some providers might charge a deterrent fee.
it's a kvm vps actually.
I don't think Vultr charges for custom isos.
No, we don't do that at Clouvider.
We do not do that.
I don't see why a provider would charge for this service as it will only hurt business. How much time does it really take to add an iso to the iso repository? A minute at most? Use rsync to keep the other nodes updated, done and a new happy customer.
@maoyipeng - What provider charges for this if you do not mind sharing?
Any provider that does charge for adding custom isos want to chime in and explain why they charge? Just curious to hear the logic behind it is all.
Providers would most likely charge if they are very low end and not making enough?
No idea. I don't charge.
their reply:We charge a nominal fee for custom ISO files because it's labor intensive for a technician to download the ISO, checksum it, and then distribute it across our infrastructure so it's available to you.
Who is this provider? Sounds like the laziest on earth that's a five minute job
@maoyipeng - Ha, labor intensive, that's a good one.
it's ultravps.com.the performance is pretty good though.
May be @Rob_T can shed some light on this
We offer custom ISO free for two times. Then he would have to pay a small fee as many shady ones tried to keep our employees busy by sending custom iso requests. The fee is exceptional.
"Backupsy"
Charges for this, $2 seems a huge ripoff imo.
Huge, yes.
How much are they asking for writing at most (if not properly implemented) 3 commands in their console?
I wouldn't ever charge something for such easy task.
Keep kids from submitting Backtrack or security ISOs requests with the fee
anything over $0 is wrong imo. cost them nothing, and in fact helps them (for future clients)
Well, it costs them long-term, but the cost is marginal compared to the potential clients' business they can earn by supporting another ISO. It opens them another niche market - you're actually giving them ideas of people to which they can market to.
Lets have an experiment for my curiosity: start up a "bring your ISO" hosting service, allowing them to submit an ISO, and see what happens.
what a stupid comment.
It costs them staff time, and for any provider that isn't a teenager running a "company" over the summer that's a significant part of the cost, and low end providers' margins are tiny.
5$
is everyone here this insane?
it cost them nothing,
At least one provider offers a way for you to upload your own .iso and start up from it on your own without assistance.
Woke up butt hurt it seems
Oh I see. When did power, bandwidth, time of employee become
so cheapFreedon't be silly, it does not cost anything to press download.
excuse me?