Difference between Cloud/VPS and Hybrid

http://www.soyoustart.com/us/offers/sys-e32-1.xml - physical server at US$50/month, 4 core Xeon E3 1225v2 @3.2Ghz, 32Gb RAM, 2*2Tb disk. It's OVH, which might put some people off.

My linode is more than powerful enough for my needs, but this is tempting me! (Except they seem to have sold out at present…)

Hybrids are usually a cross between a dedicated and and vps. Typically a provider takes a powerful server and only puts 3 or 4 vm's on it instead of the usual 15 or 20 and calls it a hybrid. They give you much more disk space and ram but usually at a cost premium.

I notice my linode has an extremely powerful cpu, much better than most smaller hosting companies provide plus excellent i/o performance. I have come and gone from linode many times but I always end up back here.

@fbroce:

Hybrids are usually a cross between a dedicated and and vps. Typically a provider takes a powerful server and only puts 3 or 4 vm's on it instead of the usual 15 or 20 and calls it a hybrid. They give you much more disk space and ram but usually at a cost premium.

What a load of marketing crap that is. A big VM is still a VM. I guess linode needs to start calling the big ones "hybrid servers".

@sweh:

http://www.soyoustart.com/us/offers/sys-e32-1.xml - physical server at US$50/month, 4 core Xeon E3 1225v2 @3.2Ghz, 32Gb RAM, 2*2Tb disk. It's OVH, which might put some people off.

My linode is more than powerful enough for my needs, but this is tempting me! (Except they seem to have sold out at present…)
So I got one. Alcohol was involved…

I wrote it up here: http://sweh.spuddy.org/Essays/soyoustart.html

I think that their kimsufi offerings are much more interesting. They haven't re-launched them fully yet after the big reorganization, but they'll have them in Montreal like soyoustart, and they'll start at $10 or $15 a month (cheapest is 8 euro).

Kimsufi looks like a bunch of amateurs, I don't see how they have a sustainable business model, plus their website is a mess (localized currency anyone?), plus they're piggybacked on OVH (need I say more?).

Kimsufi is owned by OVH. OVH just like splitting themselves into different companies. They have a 'unique' business model which works because they're dirt cheap. Kimsufi is really aimed at someone just wanting to learn linux sysadmin and/or have a fairly large amount of disk space compared to a vps. You wouldn't host anything serious on one.

AIUI, Kimsufi was based on "old servers, let's repurpose them for low cost entry-level". But they found that those old servers were more than powerful enough for many customers needs and so they were losing money. Heheheh.

SoYouStart is the new variation on this, and is half-way between Kimsufi and a full OVH server.

@glg:

@fbroce:

Hybrids are usually a cross between a dedicated and and vps. Typically a provider takes a powerful server and only puts 3 or 4 vm's on it instead of the usual 15 or 20 and calls it a hybrid. They give you much more disk space and ram but usually at a cost premium.

What a load of marketing crap that is. A big VM is still a VM. I guess linode needs to start calling the big ones "hybrid servers".

I can't really disagree. I could be wrong but I have been watching the hosting business for a decade or more and tried scores of hosts both dedicated and vm. I never rented a "hybrid" server though. I could not see the point.

The "hybrid" is probably a less powerful server (correction from my first post) that is not suitable for supporting 20 or so vm's. You are getting a dedicated divided into 3 or 4 pieces. So if you don't have raid and top of the line equipment and your shared neighbor doesn't eat up resources, it might work for some.

I think the big linodes are similar to hybrids but way more powerful than most you see on the market.

Except they still plan to offer KimSufi, and their Montreal datacenter is too new to really have "old" servers.