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After watching the video, the takeaway for me was don't run $database on EC2 instances.

Last night I just finished replacing 6 maxed out medium instances with one $100 box from SoftLayer. :/



At that price point, it seems that you can get FAR better specs on Honelive. Kimsufi.ie is even cheaper, if you don't mind your server being hosted in the UK.

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Softlayer: Intel 4x2.40GHz, 2 GB RAM ECC, $160/mo Honelive: Intel i7-2600 16, 16 GB RAM, $120/mo Kimsufi.ie: Intel i7 4x 2(HT)x 2.66+ GHz, 24 GB, $60/mo


Have you heard any reviews of Honelive? I've been looking for a dedicated server provider in the US with comparable prices to Hetzner in Germany.


I get a lot of nice little extras from SoftLayer. For example I can get boxes in the 5 corners of the internet (west, central, east, euro, asia) with free bandwidth between them.


Has anyone used Kimsufi? Are they any good? I'm at Hetzner right now, but I never found any use for that box, so I'm just paying for it for nothing...


I just signed up for kimsufi. They are the budget brand of OVH. Webhostingtalk gives them favorable reviews.


And if you do, for God's sake don't run them on EBS volumes. If you don't know by now that EBS performance is highly variable, you really haven't been paying attention.




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