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iwstack?
+1 for iwStack. Don't think you will find any better out there.
They charge €1/mo for every extra IP.
LunaCloud / RackSpace / PhoenixNAP Secure Cloud ($50 free credit promo)
Can't even find LuneCloud on google?
Luna*
Yes iwstack are superb @Asim bhai believe me you won't find a better cloud server at prices they charge.
Btw iwstack use cloudstack, was wondering what do DigitalOcean use?
It's not really a cloud (SAN/Failover/User Firewall etc.) like iwStack, its cloud because they have pay per hour and it's marketed that way. It's really just a KVM box.
Don't want to hijack the thread, but I'm still looking for a cloud host that don't charge for turned off instances like iwStack. LunaCloud do only charge 50% for turned off servers, but still, their prices is more then triple of iwStack (1 GB, 2vCore, 50 GB disk, 100 GB bw) = £26.83/mo at LunaCloud and £7.88/mo at iwStack.
You'd be lucky if you find someone like this, you are still using disk & IP space so will always be charged.
@myhken You could use Amazon EC2 spot instances. It runs as low as $3~$4 per month. Make an AMI and terminate the instance, and you are only charged for the snapshot.
You can even have two IP addresses. Please refer to my comment at the other thread:
http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/20474/list-of-providers-offering-internal-ip-addresses
@hwdsl2: as I always use several backup servers for my main servers (@iwStack) I was looking for a place there I could have both a live backup server and maybe on server standing by. The lowest price I can find on Amazon is the Micro instance with 0.6 GB of RAM, at it cost $14.4/mo. For 1.7 GB (m1.small) the price is $46.8/mo
Thats really to high for just a backup server, almost never used because iwStack/Prometeus have no/very little downtime at all.
@Asim +1 for IWStack, while I'm doing Cloud; I won't be offering per-hour (not that kind of SaaS / cloud.)
@myhken There are spot instances that can go as low as 0.003/hr for micro instances in the N. Virginia region or 0.004/hr for the N. California region. So the lowest you can get is ~$2.25 per month not including I/O or snapshot charges.
However those instances can be terminated at any time whenever your "bid price" is no longer higher than the current price. With that said, I observed in the N. California region the spot price for micro instance seems very stable at $0.004 for the past month, so you may be able to bid for example $0.005 and run the instance for a long time. Remember to backup regularly by making AMIs of the running instance (and delete older AMIs).
For a spot small instance the lowest seems to be 0.0071/hr.
iwStack does not charge the full whack for turned off instances, only the resources you are using e.g. IP address and disk space, not memory, CPU etc.
I know, looking for another hosts that do the same for my backup servers.
say what you will about their pricing but Rackspace is an absolutely fantastic provider. Of course, their managed services are expensive, but their pricing is surprisingly competitive for their cloud servers.
Keep in mind that Rackspace mostly deals with businesses so their network is very clean and well maintained and monitored. And they offer 24/7 phone/live chat/email/ticket support.
Spot instances on ec2 are the best kept open secret @myhken you can also buy reserve instances. A full utilization micro comes in under $10
+1 Spot instances on ec2.
You can automate all the steps above. : )
thanks so much guys for iwstack.com (which I already have an account but forgot I had one) and for spot-instances on EC2
LOL, how could you do that...
(Damn just had a small earthquake again...)
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I did sth similar, ordered @serverian 's vpsdime twice , forgot about the first one
+1
I use spot instances on ec2 for same purpose. There are some 100$ coupons you can find periodically.