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metal.equinix.com
Company blog · metal.equinix.com/blogsystemshardware
metal.equinix.com is the company blog at metal.equinix.com, writing about systems and hardware. Since 2020, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “We chased and caught a ghost from the past in the Metal machine”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Equinix Metal's product and blog pages on bare-metal servers, including ARM servers, on-demand and spot options, and its Kill Bill billing post, usually as hosting options or examples.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-11-19
- /product/servers/c3-large-arm64/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-07-20
- We chased and caught a ghost from the past in the Metal machine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-20
What Hacker News says?
If you want rocksolid dedicated servers of utmost HA and reliability, look no further than Equinix Metal: https://metal.equinix.com/product/servers/ They run datacenters for other datacenter companies. Most people have never heard of them because they're a $6B/year revenue beast that runs behind the scenes; but they also offer direct metal servers.
Comment linking /product/servers/
on “We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS”Submitted What Is Specialized Hardware and Why Open Source Will Drive Adoption as a story · 76 points
HN discussionAlso pretty interesting, Equinix Metal appears to be using this product: https://feedback.equinixmetal.com/changelog/new-kill-bill-bi... https://metal.equinix.com/blog/under-the-hood-kill-bill/
Comment linking /blog/under-the-hood-kill-bill/
on “Kill Bill – Open-Source Subscription Billing and Payments Platform”Submitted What the Arrival of IPv6 Support in Kubernetes Means for You as a story · 11 points
HN discussionEquinix Metal is currently hiring: https://metal.equinix.com/about/#careers
Comment linking /about/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)”Submitted Baremetal OS provisioning @ faster than cloud speed: in detail as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThis page says on-demand is an option: https://metal.equinix.com/product/servers/c3-large-arm64/
Comment linking /product/servers/c3-large-arm64/
on “Hetzner to Offer First Arm-Based Dedicated Servers in Europe”Submitted The Network of the Future Calls for a New Kind of Network Engineer as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> features the first Arm-based dedicated servers in Europe Not sure in what context these are "first" but Equinix Metal has had ARM servers for...definitely many years. https://metal.equinix.com/product/servers/c3-large-arm64/
Comment linking /product/servers/c3-large-arm64/
on “Hetzner to Offer First Arm-Based Dedicated Servers in Europe”Submitted We chased and caught a ghost from the past in the Metal machine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA comparison between the mentioned Ampere Altra Q80-30 and AWS Graviton2: https://blog.cloudflare.com/arms-race-ampere-altra-takes-on-... A similar instance to the RX220 at Equinix (bare metal) would cost around $1800/month [1]. (8x Hetzner's price) [1] https://metal.equinix.com/product/servers/c3-large-arm64/
Comment linking /product/servers/c3-large-arm64/
on “Hetzner to Offer First Arm-Based Dedicated Servers in Europe”Submitted Ask Your Developer – Even About Hardware as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEquinix Bare Metal. https://metal.equinix.com/ They’re a $6B revenue company that most people haven’t heard of. Their expertise is in building data centers for other data center companies.
Comment linking /
on “Cloud services like AWS or Google Cloud Platform may be the wrong choice”Submitted OpenTelemetry and the Ghost of Provisioning Past as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI’ve heard good things about Packet.com. They were acquired and is now part of Equinix Metal. Might be worth having a look at: https://metal.equinix.com/
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Advice on Colocating Servers?”Submitted 24 Days of Cloud Native as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIsn’t that what https://metal.equinix.com/ sells?
Comment linking /
on “Kubernetes 1.23 Released”Submitted Tinkerbell Got Its Wings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://metal.equinix.com/ May work for what you need, and they also have spot instances.
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Looking for bare metal hosting company without virtualized NICs”