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CloudSigma
Company blog · cloudsigma.com/blogprogrammingbusiness
CloudSigma is the company blog at cloudsigma.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2010, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Homepage of CloudSigma, a Zurich-based cloud hosting provider. HN commenters suggest it as a European alternative to AWS, Rackspace and Linode, and cite its FreeBSD hosting and pricing pages. None judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
CloudSigma is the sovereign cloud platform for service providers — launch branded, in-country IaaS and AI services in weeks on a global partner network.
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-12-01
What Hacker News says?
Here's a couple: https://www.cloudsigma.com/landing/freebsd-cloud-hosting/ https://www.rootbsd.net/
Comment linking /landing/freebsd-cloud-hosting/
on “Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux?”Submitted A public cloud taking a stand against government intrusion as a story · 29 points
HN discussionCloud Sigma ( http://www.cloudsigma.com/ ) is the best alternative to Amazon I have found. They don't provide services like SQS, but they do have scalable storage. I suggest you change that aggressive, pouty tone of yours. I was addressing a specific point in your comment, not disagreeing with you.
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on “Amazon Drops Price Of EC2 Dedicated Instances By Up To 80%”Submitted How your data gets compromised in an IaaS cloud: Vendor tells all as a story · 26 points
HN discussionPlease have a look at: http://www.cloudsigma.com/en/our-cloud/how-we-compare (feature comparison) https://cloudsleuth.net/web/guest/global-provider-view (select Europe for a comparison of our cloud performance against other providers)
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on “Rackspace cloud beats Amazon EC2, by a lot”Submitted Death of the Pure IaaS Cloud: Part 2- as a story · 25 points
HN discussionDoes anyone have experience with http://www.cloudsigma.com/ ? They seem like a nice alternative for european companies. It would be interesting to see a comparison with Amazon and Rackspace.
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on “Rackspace cloud beats Amazon EC2, by a lot”Submitted Future of Cloud Storage: An inside perspective from an IaaS vendor as a story · 19 points
HN discussionCloudsigma is based in Zurich, Switzerland and seems to be fairly big. They should be able to cope with this kind of attack: http://www.cloudsigma.com/
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on “Wikileaks moves to Amazon's cloud to evade massive DDoS”Submitted Debian 6.0 cloud servers launched with full root access as a story · 18 points
HN discussionhttp://www.brightbox.co.uk I asked them about their policies regarding plans to expand to the US or hold any US interests, and also specifically asked about a mention in their policy documents on defamatory content (as I deal with user generated content) and received this good response: we're based in the UK, both co-founders are UK residents and we have no plans to become a US company. All our datacentres are in th…
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on “Ask HN: European Linode / DigitalOcean alternatives”Submitted We say end IaaS walled gardens as a story · 16 points
HN discussionAll our pricing is available at http://www.cloudsigma.com/en/pricing/price-schedules . Best wishes, CloudSigma
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on “FreeBSD cloud servers and ZFS from CloudSigma”Submitted Secret weapon of one IaaS Vendor: Utilisation management -- dynamic pricing as a story · 16 points
HN discussionApologies for formatting: Computing resources CHF EUR GBP USD Unit CPU 0.0250 0.0175 0.0150 0.0225 Core-GHz/hou RAM 0.0325 0.0228 0.0195 0.0293 GB/hour Storage 0.2000 0.1400 0.1200 0.1800 GB/per month So $0.1800/GB/Month. Source: http://cloudsigma.com/en/pricing/price-schedules So in the range of S3 storage which is "First 50 TB / Month of Storage Used $0.150 per GB" with a reduction to $0.100 per GB for reduced-red…
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on “FreeBSD cloud servers and ZFS from CloudSigma”Submitted Death of the Pure IaaS Cloud: The impact on customers as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted CERN, EMBL & ESA launch Helix Nebula, a European Science cloud as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloud Affiliate Program: How to Make Money with CloudSigma Part 1 as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted CloudSigma now offers remote VM access by fax as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fedora 14 cloud servers launched with full root access by CloudSigma as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jclouds & libcloud add support for the CloudSigma public IaaS cloud as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloudsigma has had five outages this week, approx. 10 hours total as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted “A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CloudSigma just launched SSD storage for cloud servers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CloudSigma joins the Open Virtualisation Alliance (OVA)- as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CentOS 6.0 Cloud Servers launched as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 Golden Rules for Server Monitoring in the Cloud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ubuntu 10.10 cloud servers with root access launched by CloudSigma as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vendor perspective: Securing the network of a public IaaS cloud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CloudSigma launches first in-browser VNC for cloud servers as a story · 2 points
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