Playing the devil's advocate (Score: 2, Interesting) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-04-22 09:19 (#14Z) Well, knowing nothing about what's going on behind the scenes, at first glance is this nothing more than a business optimization? Perhaps they found that typical users needed nothing more than X but were actually getting Y, and if they adjusted they could fit more customers into their existing hardware resources?That doesn't make it right of course, but would help explain what's going on. Not too late for a competitor to swoop in with a better deal and steal away customers - it's what keeps the business world honest and on their toes. Re: Playing the devil's advocate (Score: 2, Interesting) by tempest@pipedot.org on 2014-04-22 15:28 (#155) I'd be surprised if there are any hosts offering 8 cores at $20 a month. That's insanely over provisioned in my opinion. Although I'm not sure what the competition is doing either. This looks far better deal than what I'm paying, although I'm happy where I'm at and Linode doesn't offer FreeBSD hosting anyway. Re: Playing the devil's advocate (Score: 1) by fnj@pipedot.org on 2014-04-28 10:38 (#17F) I'm not sure there's any difference between getting a time share of 2 cores or a time share of 8 cores (or a time share of 8000 cores for that matter). It all depends on how many VMs are sharing a pool of how many total cores. I assume the number of VMs greatly exceeds the number of cores available in the host. It's not as if you're getting any dedicated cores in any case.
Re: Playing the devil's advocate (Score: 2, Interesting) by tempest@pipedot.org on 2014-04-22 15:28 (#155) I'd be surprised if there are any hosts offering 8 cores at $20 a month. That's insanely over provisioned in my opinion. Although I'm not sure what the competition is doing either. This looks far better deal than what I'm paying, although I'm happy where I'm at and Linode doesn't offer FreeBSD hosting anyway. Re: Playing the devil's advocate (Score: 1) by fnj@pipedot.org on 2014-04-28 10:38 (#17F) I'm not sure there's any difference between getting a time share of 2 cores or a time share of 8 cores (or a time share of 8000 cores for that matter). It all depends on how many VMs are sharing a pool of how many total cores. I assume the number of VMs greatly exceeds the number of cores available in the host. It's not as if you're getting any dedicated cores in any case.
Re: Playing the devil's advocate (Score: 1) by fnj@pipedot.org on 2014-04-28 10:38 (#17F) I'm not sure there's any difference between getting a time share of 2 cores or a time share of 8 cores (or a time share of 8000 cores for that matter). It all depends on how many VMs are sharing a pool of how many total cores. I assume the number of VMs greatly exceeds the number of cores available in the host. It's not as if you're getting any dedicated cores in any case.