Are you fully aware of what they offer? They have all kinds of well-known and arcane certifications, integrations with a few dozen products that are only relevant to large enterprises, a pretty big third-party ecosystem and the API to support them, and the large team required to sell and support these tools.
It's not just file storage for five bucks a month.
My personal server is with them, their response has been better then some 'enterprise level' server solutions in my country. while costing hundreds of times less.
Price and functionality. It’s incredibly easy to use, unlike AWS and Google Cloud. The downfall is that you have a bit less control, but that’s never been an issue for me. Their servers have been incredibly reliable, they offer managed databases now, load balancer, S3 compatible Spaces. Everything I’ve needed so far, predictable and affordable pricing, and none of the complexity.
Their website is ridiculously well designed -- possibly on par with Heroku. Doesn't say much about their solutions and infrastructure, but it does signal great care.
It’s successful to me as a user. Beats the heck out of that whole “set up an FTP server” recommendation. And how much is their loss due to growth focused investment?
Not familiar with the project but it is great to see a counterpart to over-provisioned enterprise infrastructure. $10 in 2021 can do what $100 in 2011 did, what $1000 in 2001 did, and that is not solely due to hardware. Well-designed deployments of K8s, KVM/LXC, Ceph, LBs like this project can handle so much more traffic than poorly configured Wordpress storefronts.
They're using battle-tested tech from Redis and RabbitMQ to Ansible and Grafana. Nothing super fancy, nothing used just for the sake of being modern. Not sure how long it took them to end up with this architecture but it doesn't look like a new dev would have a hard time getting familiar with how everything works.
Would definitely like to hear more about their dev environment, how it is different from prod, and how they handle the differences.
They do have a pretty complex infra with redundancy, extensive caching, the whole works. But I think they use a relatively boring, reliable stack throughout. It doesn't look like they run a lot of GARTNER MAGIC QUADRANT Cloud Solutions to Supercharge™ their web-scale data blazingly.
On the plus side solid stable software can run for decades without incidents, as long as the hardware is willing. The main negative is that it's not as Supercharged™ as the latest cloud product with a 99.9% SLA, which itself relies on 5 other internal microservices with 99.9% SLA each.
It's tidier than AWS and GAE, better performing and slightly more expensive. Tooling is good, support is excellent (I can get someone who knows arse from elbow on the phone in 2 minutes flat). Some of it is a little odd, but it makes sense eventually. API is a little clunky though.
We have some kit in it (Linux and windows which might sound odd), but it seems to be pretty reliable. Our AD forest root servers are in it and two OpenLDAP roots for clients as is our web site (which is 3rd party PHP).
It basically does everything. It's sort of GAE's app model and AWS's server + network model in one.
We did have a network/vlan issue but they sorted that on the phone in literally 10 minutes.
"Good" is subjective. I've had a 1GB accelerator with them basically forever. Here are a few points.
1. Their pricing is absurdly high, as cloud providers go. They are roughly double for equivalent* offerings.
* = "equivalent" is tough to qualify, since hardly anybody offers solaris zones.
2. They don't seem to have much interest in migrating exiting customers over to their "my joyent" self-provisioning system.
3. They have been delivering 100% availability since I've been with them, which is going on 3 years now. I've never experienced this with any other provider, ever.
4. Performance is better than I would have expected.
I have been watching this development these last few hours. In a back-of-the-envelope calculation it is a very robust pace. It's nowhere near the CPAN modules, yet, but it is way more than any other repositories and it grows continuously.
Thanks! The functionality is definitely powerful at large scales. We want to provide a solution that companies can get started with right away, with zero setup.
I have two SaaS products using this stack, and my personal site. The SaaS products get decent traffic (millions of requests every month, thousands of requests per-minute). I use Postgres for everything and I have no complaints.
I'm no Google, but it has been holding up very well (I've never had any issue with CPU, memory or anything). My simple release strategy does come with potential downtime, but the shutdown and start up are so fast it's very minimal.
I don’t know about it’s market success, but it’s a great product. We use it for as the frontend for all of the streaming platforms and PLEX as well as running some stuff directly from a NAS and IPTV.
I use them everywhere and have a big pile of chromecasts, satellite boxes, remote controls and Apple tvs now ready for eBay!
Man - I don't know if they are a small company or a large corporation...but I've been with them for 5 years and I can't remember a single time it was slow/had problems/flickered a monitor/anything.
It was rock solid when I was learning Chef and provisioning 5-7 small servers on/off to learn how devops and microservices would work. I remember $1/month instances ($3/quarter).
yeah, it's somewhat a "hidden" treasure. No idea why they are not often mentioned or used in comparisons and such. The servers are great, the pricing is great and the UI is really nice.
Essentially, their product is (at least) on par with major competitors like Google and AWS, no small feat for a young company.
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