Don't suppose your absence from the teh meat was due to you being in the Netherlands and saying that in person?
Because I hadn't poked yet, but got this email at the weekend:
quote: Hi Peter,
First of all, I thank you for your business over the past few years, and if by the end of this mail I have not convinced you to stay with us - then I will immediately send you the 150 EUR credit note.
Let me start by pointing out that you are currently subscribed to a legacy plan.
We have recently upgraded our VPS plans in more ways than 1. New hardware, persistent storage, higher-spec plans, and lower pricing points. If this is of interest of you, we can migrate you to our new VPS200 Plan free of charge.
Another interesting development which I would like to make you aware of, is our pending release of Xen based cloud servers featuring failover nodes, failover SAN, and instant scalability. We are currently BETA testing this offering inhouse, and to tell you the truth, this product will make Virtuozzo VPS all but obsolete. If you chose to stay with EuroVPS - we will offer you a 3 month free evaluation period on our new Cloud VPS offering (on top of your existing credit note).
Thank you for your patience in regards to this credit note, but we usually do not give cash back on credit notes, but I made an exception considering your standing with our company. If you still want to receive the credit note in cash-back format, please send me a paypal ID where we can send the monies to.
Best regards,
So, that's good that they'll give the credit back, though it probably makes sense to at least consider the offerings - I guess we'll need to wait for Matt to return before we can give a final answer, but anyway here are the details:
The VPS200 mentioned there is €34 (~£28) a month paid yearly (so ~£336) and gives:
* 1024MB guaranteed RAM, 2048 burst RAM
* 20GB disk space
* 2TB bandwidth
So far there's not much details on the Cloud service, but prices appear to starts at $50 (£375 for first year, £500 after) which seem a bit pricey - a small amount of more details at euroiaas.com, so if we are interested we'd need to ask.
The closest Linode plans to the VPS200 seems to be:
Linode 1024 for $40 (£26) monthly
* 1024MB RAM
* 32GB storage
* 400GB transfer
But there is a cheaper Linode option, if we don't actually need all that RAM, space and transfer - the Linode 512 is $20 monthly (£13) and provides:
* 512MB RAM
* 16GB storage
* 200GB transfer
Potentially, if we wanted to get fancy, we could get two Linode 512 servers, one for web server one for db, and optimise each server appropriately.
No details of guaranteed/burst RAM available on Linode site, and no details of what CPUs run .
Linode have a 99.9% uptime guarantee, or you get the lost time refunded. EuroVPS are currently promising 99.97% with limited compensation and exclusions.
I'd need to go check, but I'm pretty sure we're way under 16GB of space and don't even get close to 200GB transfer. Not sure about RAM usage though.
So yeah, if anyone has any thoughts on that, go ahead, but as I said we probably need to wait for Matt to return. |
