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SSD Nodes is a bootstrapped cloud hosting provider I've been working on since 2011. Our servers are 90% lower cost than DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode when you commit to 1 or 3 years in advance.

We recently launched a Performance line of servers leveraging NVMe technology that boasts millions of IOPS and up to 6,400MB/s disk throughput, while still being 75% lower cost than what you would pay with at competitors.

We recently launched a Performance line of servers leveraging NVMe technology that boasts millions of IOPS and up to 6,400MB/s disk throughput, while still being 75% lower cost than what you would pay with at competitors.

https://www.ssdnodes.com

> If you meant to visit the search engine DuckDuckGo, click here.

I wouldn't have expected that from Google.

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Let us know if you have any questions.

In most cases our annual price is equivalent to 1-3 months of a competitor's monthly price. You mentioned AWS so I'm going to use them as an example, even though it's not an apples to apples comparison. Their m5.xlarge is similar to our X-Large plan (16GB RAM + 4vCPUs). I'll ignore that it doesn't include storage or bandwidth, for simplicity. The m5.xlarge (with no storage or bandwidth) costs $140/month on-demand, which exceeds the annual price of the X-Large plan. If you reserve an m5.xlarge for 1 year (paid upfront) with AWS, the cost is a little less than $1K, which is close to 10X the cost of our X-Large.

If customers cancel their server with us after the 14-day refund period, we provide a prorated credit for the remainder of their billing cycle[0]. So if someone cancels after 2 months, they get the remaining 10 months as credit. They can use that towards renewals, new services, etc. I totally respect it's not for everyone, but the cost savings can be substantial for those who are able to use our services.

We are also expanding to Europe in the near future.

[0] https://www.ssdnodes.com/features/

Check out our pricing:

https://www.ssdnodes.com/pricing/

Happy to answer questions if there's any.

[0]: https://serverscope.io/trials/lrAw

OpenVZ, when used properly, provides us with massive performance gains along with the flexibility of "live scaling." Since we're providing containers, our customers can scale up to a larger plan with zero downtime. Their RAM and disk resources are available immediately after choosing the next package (additional cores require a reboot).

We're trying to go in a different direction from hourly, and instead offer very deep discounts for annually. So customers can get 8GB RAM for $6.49/month ($77.99/year) and have stellar performance with a provisioning time of about 10 seconds.

[0] https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-ssd.xml

Direct link to the benchmark: https://serverscope.io/trials/lrAw

Special pricing for startups: https://www.ssdnodes.com/startup-specials/

/shameless plug

https://www.ssdnodes.com/startup-specials/

/utterly shameless plug

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 :-)

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

Sometimes a dev from a large company will test us on a smaller package with a company credit card and expand from there after we push them through the sales funnel.

Most of our enterprise clients pay using either ACH or check, while the remaining typically use credit cards.

Geoff Ralston Startups, technology, and education. ==> Partner at Y Combinator <== Founder and Partner at Imagine K12

We try to keep it as clear and concise as possible by showing the pricing you get with the promo + the normal pricing after that.

If the main concern of this post is pricing: our service isn't the cheapest, nor do we want it to be. We want JARVYS to provide the most value and peace of mind to our customers. It allows us to focus on delivering quality instead of searching for the next buck. Is the loss of your data worth the money you'd be saving from choosing one providing over another?

We actually called up iDrive to learn more about their Linux product and to ask them for help installing it, and their response was to read the documentation. Linux felt almost like an afterthought with them, with their core product being Mac and Windows. Instead of us half-way supporting Windows, Mac, Linux, and everything else, we want to be the best Linux backup service available and to focus solely on it.

> No word on encryption.

We encrypt data in motion, but not at rest (yet). Since this is a beta product we wanted to get it out there first with a free version that would bring the barrier down and allow us to learn as much from users as possible.

> No word on what is actually backed up, how to include or exclude files.

By default it backs up everything except /proc and /sys, which you can change here (with detailed instructions): /var/jarvys/etc/include

> No word on when anything is backed up and how (cronjob, daemon?).

It's a cronjob that checks in with our servers every hour and backs up once a day. The reason it's not a daemon is because daemons die, and we needed something as bulletproof as possible. Checking in every hour allows us to tell you when your server hasn't been checking in (which means you can proactively see if your cron daemon is broken or if something else went wrong before it affects your backups).

> No word on how running services and databases are backed up that may need special procedures for a consistent snapshot.

We include a special script that allows you to run things like mysqldump before the servers back up to JARVYS: /var/jarvys/etc/run-before-backup.sh

> No word on how to restore or access backups when the backed up host has failed.

That's also included in here[0] - that feature is still in testing and hasn't been released yet.

> All things considered I have a strong feeling you are not qualified to run a service like this. Your expertise seems to be in webdesign, not in Unix and servers.

Another backup concern you didn't mention is bit rot, which we're using ZFS to mitigate.

Thank you for your kind words regarding our website, our designer actually wrote a detailed blog post on how they came up with the logo[1]. We've been providing managed backup services (among other managed services) for our SSD Nodes[2] clients, which is for whom we originally built this service.

[0] https://my.jarvys.io/docs/home [1] https://blog.jarvys.io/2014/11/04/the-jarvys-logo-design/ [2] https://www.ssdnodes.com