We will help developers: advantages and disadvantages of cloud, we will provide 1000 cloud servers in the Netherlands and the USA for free

    Like any large hosting provider, we have idle infrastructure capacities, and in a rather large number. 3 years ago, we announced the service of cloud virtual servers in the Netherlands and the USA, which was developed by our partner, LeaseWeb, in the hope of receiving some of the users who were already gaining popularity in Digital Ocean. As a partner, we decided to participate in this project and bought a fairly large part of the cloud infrastructure, so large that we decided to give the first 1000 cloud servers at a lower price (cheaper than the cost). Today we want to go even further, consider all the advantages and disadvantages and offer the same number of cloud servers:

    1 vCPU / 1GB RAM / 40GB SSD / 1 Gbps 4TB
    2 vCPU / 2GB RAM / 60GB SSD / 1 Gbps 6TB

    FREE for developers with Habrahabr, on demand (it can be months or even a year), but why?

    Cloud VPS became a good option on the way to a dedicated server, until we announced VPS (KVM) with dedicated drives that surpassed dedicated entry-level servers in performance , and at a price that were cheaper than the older cloud VPS tariffs, but containing more resources and goodies - convenient control panel, the ability to mount your own image, the ability to get Windows for half a year for free. At the moment, we offer a 30% discount for Habr users on a unique analogue of entry-level servers, which was invented by us for you, a promotional code is available in the article:is the whole truth about VPS (KVM) E5-2650 v4 (6 Cores) 10GB DDR4 240GB SSD 1Gbps from $ 20 or how to divide the server correctly? Options are available with RAID1 and RAID10, up to 24 cores and up to 40GB DDR4 RAM. Most customers have already switched to these solutions and at the moment we have an overabundance of VPS, which we don’t want to refuse, since they are still a good option for beginners, but we don’t want them to just “warm the air”.

    Here, on Habr, once the old servers were handed out to the needy, but no one was handed out the new and necessary, especially to a large number of developers, and even for a long time. We decided to go even further this time and without any tenders provide on-demand (it could be a month, half a year, a year or even more) cloud VPS, which are always in reserve and stand idle in our Netherlands or the USA, one of of two types, for FREE, and you can order them here :

    [S]
    Cores (vCPU) 1 Core
    Memory (vRAM) 1 GB
    Quota 40 GB (SSD Storage)
    Port 1000 Mbps
    Traffic 4 TB
    DDOS-protection: up to 500 000 pps or 1 Gbps
    From $ 5.99, for you FREE

    or

    [M]
    Cores (vCPU) 2 Core
    Memory (vRAM) 2 GB
    Quota 60 GB (SSD Storage)
    Port 1000 Mbps
    Traffic 6 TB
    DDOS-protection: up to 500 000 pps or 1 Gbps
    From $ 7.99, for you FREE

    Why exactly are they? They are good for developers who want to have an environment for experimentation and we have them. We try not to create high rates L, XL, because we can offer people the best solution - VPS (KVM) with dedicated drives . After all, they are often slightly more expensive, but actually cheaper, as they include more resources and traffic, as well as additional amenities.

    Free Terms


    • Place an order, register in the system, go to the payment stage, but do not pay (so that the order is created, otherwise the order simply will not be issued).
    • Indicate here the ten-digit order number in the comment. First of all, we will issue VPS in the USA, regardless of the location you choose on our website, since we have a large% of the infrastructure there, but if you need the Netherlands, open a ticket and explain this need, most likely we can provide and there).

    If you need an additional paid panel such as ISP Manager or a Windows license for the M tariff, then alas, but you have to pay for the panel or Windows additionally, your VPS will become paid, but the price will equal the cost of the license.

    • We have the right to take VPS from you at any time if a buyer is found on your cloud VPS without warning. Sorry, but the client who paid for the service should not expect when it will be activated, the only thing is that we can notify that your VPS will most likely be needed tomorrow, having estimated the order intensity and the number of remaining free VPS. That is, always have a fresh backup! Of course, that first of all VPS will be withdrawn from those who placed an order earlier and used the service longer. We will nevertheless leave some reserve in order not to pick up the VPS immediately the next day after the issue. That is, from a month or more, you are likely to work, and maybe even half a year or a year, as customers constantly switch to a new solution , receiving growth.If you want to switch to a paid tariff and thank us, while retaining the exclusive right to use the service, we can offer you to pay for your VPS, and we will offer up to 3 months of free use as a bonus, provided that the service is paid for long-term. When paying for the service for a year, the bonus will be 3 months, and when paying for half a year or 3 months - two or one month, respectively. To receive the bonus, simply contact the sales department, indicating this condition of the promotion.
    • Free distribution will be completed before the end of February or upon reaching 1000 provided servers. That is, February 28 is the last day when you can get VPS for use for free, just leaving a comment with the order number. Do you have any friends? Let them know, order for them if they are not readers of Habr and are not able to leave a comment.
    • We do not limit the number of VPS in one hand , but you must explain the need for more than one VPS. In this case, until February 28, you will receive only one VPS in one hand, the rest of the ordered virtual servers can be received after February 28, subject to their availability and in the order of the queue (the queue can be seen in the comments, as well as fixing the number).

    Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud VPS


    We want to be as honest as possible with you, and therefore we will consider the issue in detail. Can a cloud-based VPS be more reliable than a dedicated server? And more effective than VPS (KVM) with dedicated drives? So many hidden minuses exist! And it’s not a sin to compare them with our new product.

    • Since storage on the cloud platform is shared, you will receive no more than 1000 storage performance IOPS. This is much more than the hard drive can provide - 70 IOPS for accidental read and write, SATA interface and 7200 rpm and 150 IOPS with SAS and 15000 rpm. But you will get much less than using a dedicated SSD - 50 or more times, because one drive can provide up to 70,000 IOPS, and if RAID - even more. And of course you will get a big delay when interacting with the repository due to the large number of virtual machine users, this is inevitable, interrupt distribution algorithms cannot work as efficiently as in the case of a dedicated server,
    • You will get less guaranteed bandwidth. Yes, we can provide up to 1 Gb / s per cloud virtual server, but the speed will vary depending on the number of clients and the level of bandwidth utilization on the host where your cloud server is located. And if, in the case of VPS (KVM) with dedicated drives, you have only 2-11 neighbors, depending on the configuration, then here the number of neighbors is many times more, and the configurations are very diverse. Are you sure that the data center has distributed the utilization of resources in an optimal way and the infrastructure does not contain hidden “bottlenecks”?
    • To build a cloud infrastructure, the data center uses old processors, since they just need to write them off somewhere. However, processors no older than E3-1230, which is already pleasing, at least there will be absolutely ancient G850s. However, this means that all the latest instructions may not be available to you. It is likely that your process will work several times or even tens of times slower than on the new processor E5-2650v4 and VPS (KVM) with dedicated drives. Although, to be honest, it is not always necessary. For some types of interrupts, the difference will not be significant.
    • You will not have a convenient control panel, such as VM Manager on VPS (KVM) with dedicated drives, which will allow you to not only reinstall your server, but also mount your own ISO, use VNC (an analogue of the virtual console for dedicated servers) and install such paid control panel, like ISP Manager, in one click with the OS and for free! You will have to pay for a Windows license - there will be no trial period of half a year! The data center collaborates with Microsoft on SPLA and therefore does not provide such an opportunity, and cloud VPS is their product. We do not cooperate with Microsoft on SPLA and have every right to provide the ability to install a test version of Windows without payment on OUR products. We have no agreements on this matter with Microsoft. Therefore, to blackmail us with the inability to provide a test version of Windows to people,
    • Moreover, you will not get a cheap price for traffic overruns and you will pay it at a price of $ 15 per TB if the data center is supportive and considers it batch, while for VPS (KVM) with dedicated storage, we can provide additional traffic at $ 15 for 10 TB at any time, an order of magnitude cheaper!
    • No additional IP, except IPv6. Since the cloud platform is large and the prices for virtual servers in the cloud are extremely low, and the number of IPv4 addresses at the data center is limited and it is difficult to get new subnets, and in order to stimulate sales of dedicated servers, the data center does not allow buying for the cloud VPS additional IPv4 addresses. Which is very strange, since the cost of an IP address in a data center is comparable to the cost of a cloud VPS server and starts at $ 4 / month (yes, we sold VPS cheaper than IP by stock). Therefore, those who need a lot of addresses - please look towards our VPS (KVM) with dedicated drives. Although we limit the ability to order additional addresses to three by default, we allow in some cases to order more, if the neighbors on the node have not expressed a desire to use their ext. IP, since IPv4 addresses on a node are limited to 32. Why? For the same reason. The data center stimulates the sale of dedicated servers and therefore does not give addresses too much, even to those who need so many addresses for business.

    But what about the “+"?


    • This is primarily the price. Cloud virtual servers will be cheap because of all these factors, and prices start at $ 5.99 ($ ​​3.99 at the time of sales, but since we intend to give out for Habr for free, we raised prices for direct subscribers) per month for 1 vCPU configuration / 1GB RAM / 40GB SSD / 1 Gbps 4TB. Yes, we compete in price, and still very significantly in quality! And the initial tariffs are very competitive with our VPS (KVM) with dedicated drives, since they are magical, but the prices and configurations, even taking into account the 30% discount for Habrahabr users , start from $ 20 for VPS (KVM) - E5-2650v4 ( 6 Cores) / 10GB DDR4 / 240GB SSD / 1Gbps 10TB.
    • The second “+” is reliability. In the event of a hardware failure, the cloud platform will restart your VPS on another machine without physical human intervention, so your data will be well protected. This is good, but in cases of a serious problem on the cloud platform, you will probably get more downtime or even loss of your data (a big error can be put in a large system). In this case, VPS (KVM) with dedicated drives can sometimes be a more reliable solution, since there are fewer failure and risk factors, the system is not so complex, it is easier to restore work. This is especially noticeable in the initial stages, when the cloud platform is just getting started and not all errors and bottlenecks are still known to architects and administrators. I remember how all the large clouds fell. AWS lay for two days, interrupting the transmission of important data from cardiac stimulants of patients as a result of an error in synchronization, which led to an avalanche effect and a long recovery. The Russian Selectel cloud also lay, as someone stole a piece of fiber connecting the data centers between which a physical cloud was distributed. The data center solution we proposed also lay, as the developers chose a not very reliable version of the common storage, and although it was duplicated, some of the subscribers were left without data. It also happens. Nevertheless, for a long time, the decision of the data center has been working "without a single gap." I immediately remembered for some reason a video on the topic: connecting data centers between which a physical cloud was distributed. The data center solution we proposed also lay, as the developers chose a not very reliable version of the common storage, and although it was duplicated, some of the subscribers were left without data. It also happens. Nevertheless, for a long time, the decision of the data center has been working "without a single gap." I immediately remembered for some reason a video on the topic: connecting data centers between which a physical cloud was distributed. The data center solution we proposed also lay, as the developers chose a not very reliable version of the common storage, and although it was duplicated, some of the subscribers were left without data. It also happens. Nevertheless, for a long time, the decision of the data center has been working "without a single gap." I immediately remembered for some reason a video on the topic:

    • The third plus is the availability of Asian traffic at a really cheap price. If you notice, then the cloud servers offered by us are available in NL, US and SIN. Yes, in Singapore the cost is much higher, but the initial tariff starts at $ 6.99 and this is for the option with 4 TB of traffic! Yes, the data center certainly hopes that most of the subscribers will not consume this limit. But you can do it! And the traffic limit is very similar to the limit for dedicated servers in Asia. For this reason, we still cannot offer our VPS (KVM) with dedicated drives in this region, they obviously will not cost $ 20 or even $ 29, their minimum price there is $ 89 for VPS (KVM) - E5-2650v4 (6 Cores) / 10GB DDR4 / 240GB SSD / 1Gbps 10TB, instead of $ 29 in the Netherlands. Therefore, they will not be able to compete with XL, which is available at a much lower price - $ 38.99 and is only slightly inferior in resources, and even surpasses our solution in the number of cores. But we are negotiating.

    conclusions


    If you don’t have money for an excellent productive VPS (KVM) with dedicated drives and you want to have a simple reliable solution for $ 5.99 or $ 7.99 per month (and in your case for free) - cloud virtual servers can be a good option for you. But in case you need more bandwidth and more traffic, a more convenient control panel and higher performance, as well as lower latency - VPS (KVM) with dedicated drives cannot be “interrupted”, especially in comparison with the L and XL options when the price difference is not so great.

    In any case, if you don’t have much money right now, but you want to succeed, you can order VPS (KVM) with dedicated drives and get a 30% discount for users and readers of Habrahabr. The promo code for everyone is available in the article: is the whole truth about VPS (KVM) E5-2650 v4 (6 Cores) 10GB DDR4 240GB SSD 1Gbps from $ 20 or how to divide the server correctly? Options are available with RAID1 and RAID10, up to 24 cores and up to 40GB DDR4 RAM. And despite the higher price, you will win, as you will get another motivation for faster growth. After all, when you do not pay money, then you are not in a hurry. At least you will help us grow with a new reliable solution that will make prices more affordable for everyone.

    Well, if you are a developer, and do not really want to support our endeavors, but still save the environment - use our free offer, leaving a comment with the order number and recommending friends the opportunity to use it for free. Since we are really sorry that entry-level cloud-based VPS warm the air, while developers, at times, do not have convenient test environments. Our cloud VPS is certainly not as convenient as competitors' droplets, but reinstalling from a wide list of OSs is available for you in automatic mode, it will look something like this:



    And most importantly, you will get more resources - a channel, CPU resources, productive storage, almost for free .

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