The Grid Containers take another step down in price
October 29, 2006 - by jason
Last Friday, we introduced a $125 container that includes 1 GiB RAM and 10 GiB SAN storage
Like all of the containers, adding more bandwidth, RAM and space ($1/GB/month for distributed storage) is a simple utility.
When we introduced the containers in July of 2006, we started with containers in single setups and at higher price points for a few reasons: we had some large customers wanting such a solution and that’s the size and prices that they wanted; we also wanted to keep the number of them down a bit as we refined a few things.
Namely, how we were going to manage 1000+ pieces of third party software and libraries across many systems, how to do distributed, resilient block storage over standard gigabit networks and cat6 cables, and how to take advantage of the fact that we’re now in multiple datacenter locations (sorry, all are still in the US). All of it geared towards the ability to scale up and scale down as needed.
What are some of the things you can expect in the very near future?
- For a number of services on our private network to be made available (just imagine what I can think of) to customer applications on containers
- For intelligent, pre-defined clusters to appear.
The clusters are particularly exciting because they come from the growing experiences with our own applications, are closer to things from my own background and are the setups that’ll impact people from shared hosting on up.
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