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I'm the founder of SSD Nodes, a US-based cloud provider, and we have special HN pricing where you can get 1GB RAM instances for only $2.99/mo

https://www.ssdnodes.com/hn/

* You can upgrade with zero downtime to a larger server (it will live resize)

* 100% uptime SLA

* Fastest SSDs (we've achieved over 200K write IOPS and 1GB/s writes)

* Direct support from engineers

* Bitcoin payments accepted

* 7-day no-hassle refund guarantee

/plug

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Where is the servers based? Why is there no info besides "us based". Do you have data-centers in EU as well?

We operate out of several datacenters, the servers for this deal are located in Montreal, Canada. We don't have EU servers yet, but are planning in expansion.

What virtualization do you use? OpenVZ, KVM, XenPV, XenHVM?

Across the company we use all of them, because our enterprise clients all have different needs. For this deal we use OpenVZ, with our own proprietary workload balancing algorithm that migrates containers so that each gets optimal performance.

Thanks. Like most technically-minded people, I wouldn't be interested in OpenVZ even at $2.99 a month.

(Responding here since I can't reply directly)

No problem. We actually ran a sale a few weeks ago at LowEndBox and added several hundred customers for our OpenVZ offerings, so I would point at the numbers as proof :-)

I wouldn't call LowEndBox a discriminating audience in any metric.

How are you compared with DO?

One more query, will the pricing remain same forever if we signup as HN user? And there is no detail about what will be the cpu configuration.

Can you throw more light on that?

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