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Choopa sends out Vultr to drown in the DigitalOcean

Nett

Article Submitter
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dano

New Member
Vultr is a service I will most likely never try - otherwise, I am a bit put off how choopa is essentially a competitor to their customers with this launch, but oh well, it's their business.
 

DomainBop

Dormant VPSB Pathogen
Vultr and DO have company....AIT launches hourly billing, SSD, 30 seconds to deploy, "built for developers":

http://www.ait.com/servers/cloud/

As you may know, AIT has been the leader in virtual technology since our inception in 1995.  But now, we’ve created the fastest and most convenient cloud server solution in the industry.  Developers, now you can deploy and manage your infrastructure in a simple fashion, so you can get back to coding. We provide all of our Cloud Servers with high-performance SSD Hard Drives, a flexible API, and the ability to implement the best applications to help your project like Wordpress, Joomla, etc.

What can AIT’s Cloud Servers do for you?

  • FAST! - 30 Seconds to spin up
  • On-demand, self-service
  • Utility type billing
  • Resource pooling
  • Flexibility
 

drmike

100% Tier-1 Gogent
They have a ad in this forum too :eek:
What is this, a joke?  Oh wait, I just saw the sidebar ad...  

Who am I writing about next to bring them in and convert them into a sponsor?  Glad to see Choopa/Vultr supporting the smaller communities.   It's appreciated!
 

HaitiBrother

New Member
Vultr and DO have company....AIT launches hourly billing, SSD, 30 seconds to deploy, "built for developers":

http://www.ait.com/servers/cloud/
It makes you wonder if they took the time to even think of a business plan....

OK Guys, we're going to code insecure software, say it's secure, say we take 30 seconds to deploy, have exact same plans and prices are digitalocean but have more locations

Million dollar business, right there.

Then again, I've seen people offering "cheap vpses" which are really just digitalocean servers, but for a few $ extra...
 

D. Strout

Resident IPv6 Proponent
AIT disk speed sucks - dd test gives less than 50MB/s. Network is about 30MB/s down. Peering as a whole is "meh", but that's AIT as a whole. The website is terrible, it took me several minutes to figure out how to order. When I ordered, the VPS info e-mail was all garbled (supposed to be HTML but came across as text with no line breaks). No IP was sent as that was given out later when the VPS was fully set up, but that was not made clear. The IP has been used before as it still has a reverse DNS entry that was not cleared out. I don't see any way to set a new rDNS entry - maybe by ticket? In terms of the financials, I have not given any payment info; I could defraud AIT if I wanted. That's all the problems I've found so far*, quite likely there are more.

*Aside from the glaringly obvious one that this is another DO ripoff
 

sv01

Slow but sure
where's AIT test ip? I've digging their website but not found info about their data center locations

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answer my own question :)

test ip : 216.117.191.30

shit : http://bgp.he.net/AS10843

---- 2nd edit

from their sales :

I am not sure exactly how the pricing works.
 
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Dylan

Active Member
have exact same plans and prices are digitalocean but have more locations
To be fair, they are cheaper than DO as soon as you go above the 512MB plan.

The whole blatant website copying thing is a serious turn-off for me, though. There's no good reason an established company like Choopa needed to do that.
 
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peterw

New Member
AIT disk speed sucks - dd test gives less than 50MB/s. Network is about 30MB/s down. Peering as a whole is "meh", but that's AIT as a whole.
where's AIT test ip? I've digging their website but not found info about their data center locations

test ip : 216.117.191.30

shit : http://bgp.he.net/AS10843
AS10843 Advanced Internet Technologies -> 100% AS5778 Embarq Corporation -> 92% AS22561 CenturyTel Internet Holdings, Inc. -> 61% AS209 Qwest Communications Company, LLC + 9% Embarq Corporation ->

AS209 announces bogons. WTF?
 

DomainBop

Dormant VPSB Pathogen
Many large  ISPs and corporations announce bogons.  Verizon Business, Cox,  ATT, Level 3, Hewlett-Packard, LeaseWeb, OVH are some of the companies that also announce IPv4 bogons.  Comcast announces IPv6 bogons.

http://bgp.he.net/report/bogons#_bogonsv4asn

http://bgp.he.net/report/bogons#_bogonsv6asn

where's AIT test ip? I've digging their website but not found info about their data center locations.
They own their own DC in Fayetteville, NC.  https://www.ait.com/company/data-center/

Just did a benchmark:
What type of virtualization are they using? Their regular VPS line is VMWare.
 
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DomainBop

Dormant VPSB Pathogen
Vultr Tokyo is live.  Monthly transfer in the Tokyo location is 100GB not 1TB for the cheapest 512MB plan.

wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model :  Vultr Virtual CPU 2
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency :  3400.012 MHz
Total amount of ram : 497 MB
Total amount of swap : 871 MB
System uptime :   2:08,       
Download speed from CacheFly: 112MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 1.47MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 1.79MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 55.6MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 722KB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 841KB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 2.90MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 1.80MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 2.02MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 1.45MB/s
I/O speed :  464 MB/s
News item #2: Quadranet has launched an hourly cloud ($0.019/hr, $14.48 month for cheapest 512MB plan.

http://quadranet.com/cloud/
 

DomainBop

Dormant VPSB Pathogen
Vultr rolled out storage plans today in the NJ location: monthly or hourly pricing

$5: 160GB storage /1TB transfer

$8  320GB /2TB

$15 640GB /3TB (undercutting their own Constant.com brand's 500GB for $19.95 monthly)
 

drmike

100% Tier-1 Gogent
Vultr rolled out storage plans today in the NJ location: monthly or hourly pricing

$5: 160GB storage /1TB transfer

$8  320GB /2TB

$15 640GB /3TB (undercutting their own Constant.com brand's 500GB for $19.95 monthly)
Nice to see Vultr rolling out some storage offers...  Long been a fan of this storage need and the market for raw usable storage isn't well developed, still.
 
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