Cloudscale – Swiss virtual servers

[pyritschard]

If you're looking for a provider already out of beta, I'd encourage you to check-out https://exoscale.ch (disclaimer: I'm the CTO there).

We have object-storage, a heroku compatible PaaS and our cloudstack based IaaS. We also contribute a ton of dOSS things whether in existing projects (riemann, collectd, graphite) or home grown projects such as http://pithos.io

If you're keen to try out, you can register with the WELOVEHN coupon which will get you started with a few more credits than the usual CHF20, we also do special prices for startups, available here: https://www.exoscale.ch/pricing-target/

[rsync]

The right thing to do in this situation is refrain from commenting in the thread at all.

Whoever "cloudscale" is, I'm sure it's a big deal to get on the front page of HN and having a competitor sneak in their promo codes in the comment thread to snipe potential customers probably puts a damper on things.

Classy.

[ranit]

>> ... can register with the WELOVEHN coupon which will get you started with a few more credits than the usual CHF20 ...

Looks good, but I don't see an entry for the coupon and the "usual" credit appears to be CHF 5?!?

[rb2k_]

Thanks! Signed up and pointed my Arq backup at your S3 compatible service (one of many backends).

[osipov]

>>heroku compatible PaaS

Are you based on Cloud Foundry?

[yc1010]

No mention as to whether Bitcoin (or Paysafecard) will be accepted, there is no point talking about PRIVACY when only payment methods such as paypal or credit cards are used which do not offer Privacy

[mindcrime]

Does being "Swiss" mean much in international terms, for something like this? That is, if I, as an American citizen, have a server with these guys, and the USG comes knocking wanting to image my instance, are they going to offer any more resistance than a US (or German, or South African, or Mexican, etc.) provider?

[polack]

How do they differentiate themselves from other providers? Feels like the ordinary "it will sell because it says Swiss all over the place".

[mrsaint]

>How do they differentiate themselves from other providers? Feels like the ordinary "it will sell because it says Swiss all over the place".

Good luck with that. ☺️ Swiss privacy laws aren't any better than, lets say, Germany's, but you pay a lot more for less (hardware, bandwith) due to limited competition.

[kordless]

If they are using OpenStack, I would highly encourage them to not screw with the basic Glance setup. I've used ~10 public cloud providers who run OpenStack now, and most of them screw Glance up in one way or another, rendering the rest of the offering fairly worthless because of the inability to use custom images.

[kragniz]

What are some examples of screwing with the basic Glance setup? Not allowing custom images?

[psuter]

I guess this is a good time to ask, then: can anyone recommend a good VPS provider with servers in Switzerland? (as in: not in beta, but available today)

[pyritschard]

I mentioned https://exoscale.ch in another reply, we're doing more than VPS and have been out and serving customers for a while now !

[yc1010]

I rented VPS 2-3 years ago from https://www.privatelayer.com/ not sure if they still do VPSes tho looking at the site now.

[rdegges]

Would it be ok to run a tor exit relay on something like this? I recently decided to contribute to the project, but have been realizing that finding an Exit-node friendly host is basically impossible.

Would love to run one here if it's allowed!

[tedunangst]

Wow is that map widget annoying on mobile. It takes up the whole screen and eats scroll gestures, making it impossible to get last or go back.

[kordless]

It's the one from Mapbox. On my own site I had to fiddle with it to get it to work properly with mobile.

[noipv4]

We have a few Dalco (swiss server co.) servers in our data-center here in Ticino. They are as good as normal Dell rackmount servers.

[Nux]

Are they using a proprietary cloud platform or one of the open source ones?

[mweibel]

As far as I can see they're using an Open-Source platform (on the first paragraph they mention it).

[epynonymous]

i imagine hosting a datacenter in switzerland has got to expensive like everything else in that country，and typically renewable energy technology is just as expensive

[talles]

Anyone have any idea what their pricing will look like?

[nickthemagicman]

I was wondering that too. Seems like it would be useful info.