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This sounds kind of like tarsnap.

The Scaleway local SSDs appear to be on the same racks as the servers connecting to them, and maybe in the same chassis, it's not real clear.  It doesn't seem to be a conventional SAN someplace else in the room.  They mention they have 912 servers in each rack, which is 24 times 38.  So that...

Oh yes, good point about the backup space, I was going to include mention but forgot.  Do the servers really have 1 gbit to the outside world for realsies?  The current (6 euro) version of that server has 200 mbit on a 1 gbit port, similar to the Scaleways and other of their low end servers...

Given that there's no RAID and they are likely to be older drives, it doesn't seem wise to use these as storage unless there's separate backup someplace.  By comparison for about the same cost you can get two 128MB Ramnode OpenVZ's with 80GB RAID-10 storage at ~$15/year each (I have two in...

Well what I mean about server costs is that if the site operator is an actual business paying salaries, office rent and expenses, and so on, then the cost of servers is almost insigificant compared to everything else.  I believe this is basically why so many startups around here use AWS.  It's...

As an alternative to a protected server you should probably also look into CDN options.  Cloudflare, OVH, etc. have them, they are good at dealing with DDOS, and they serve your content from multiple locations, so even if one place gets DOS'd, other places still work. It also seems to me that...

Normally this would go in "service requests" but the obvious place to try is OVH--all their stuff has basic DDOS protection and their current VPS pricing especially in their budget (SSD) line is quite competitive and they have lots of dedis too.  They are in France and Canada and their...

This is from July but I just noticed it yesterday: * http://enterprisetimes.co.uk/2015/07/14/ovh-unleashes-armv8-public-cloud/ * http://cavium.com/newsevents-OVH-Launches-Worlds-first-ARMv8-Based-Public-Cloud-Powered-by-Cavium-ThunderX-Workload-Optimized-Processors.html It looks like OVH is...

By coincidence I also found out about them in the past couple days and have been communicating with their sales guy.  BW didn't come up specifically, but it says on that page that additional bandwidth is $5 per TB.  Also, if you look on WHT, they post a promo code for first month free.  When you...

Lowendspirit now has a Singapore location.  I wonder where it is hosted.

Yeah, I updated my post to mention the SAN expandability while you were writing that.  They also have an S3-like object store for it at 0.02/GB/mo but they're currently not accepting new users for it while they deal with some unclear capacity or scaling issues (existing users can keep using...

They have scaleway.com (online.net ARM brand) dedis for 2.99 euro monthly or 0.6 eurocents hourly.  They are quad core ARM servers (cpu about equivalent to a raspberry pi model 2) with 2GB of ram and 50GB SSD SAN (expandable at 1 euro/month per additional 50GB).  You can play with them with no...

Oh I see.  It said Pasadena CA so I figured USD.  If it's your post you might update to say it's CAD.  Too bad about the ipv6 and unfortunate that there doesn't seem to be a way to buy more disk space, but it looks like a terrific deal anyway.  Thanks for the info.

Matt, thanks for those Petabyet measurements.  It looks like they got the price wrong (says $4.49 instead of $3.49) but the other stuff is interesting. Reckless, there are some cpu measurements on the OVH pages.  Basically what you'd expect given the processor models.  The interesting feature...

Aha, I wondered what the deal was with those singlehop certificates.  And they have the authority to revoke them too?  That's actually scary, in conjunction with the .pw thing.  More certs may have been revoked by now without being compromised and against the users' wishes, than revoked for...

253 addresses going to a VPS with no requirements on the VPS itself?  I wonder what that sounds like.

Nice about the price reductions, but what is the AlphaSSL debacle?  Is that different from the Geotrust/Symantec debacle where they're revoking all the .pw certificates?  I was just looking at the HN thread about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10183282 Geotrust had seemed like a...

OVH prices are a little lower than mentioned (8 euro for 2gb etc) and they also have a Quebec location (ovh.us / ovh.ca), if of interest.  Their current cloud VPS is a new product so I don't know of anyone who has tried it yet, but I've been a bit intrigued by its high availability feature.  It...

Thanks, yeah, your site works now in a manner of speaking.  If you get one of those KVH plans I hope you'll write up your impressions in the review section, either in a new thread or in the existing one.  I've been intrigued by both the SSD and "cloud" plans.

BuyVM has a nice setup involving IP Anycast to three locations (western US, eastern US, and Luxembourg Europe).  You buy three VPS from them (one at each location) and at your request, all three get the same IP address, so in the event of a node failure, client packets automatically get routed...