center807 said:
That's not idempotent, that's consistently bad.
I asked them same question last Tuesday. Got "facility details are proprietary for security reasons."
Security through obscurity for a colo. Amazing.
HostSlick's new EU location launch deal worth it?
kasper_quelle said:
Oracle's free tier is a lottery
Fair. I have had three accounts, two survived. The third was my fault—I forgot to verify with a real phone number and they auto-nuked it.
Still: if you get in, it is the best price. If you need guaranteed x86 at guaranteed price, HostSlick is fine. These are different products.
licensing is a suggestion
center807
Member OP
Aleksi said:
My trace goes through Stockholm
Mine too. 31ms from Prague. Acceptable for the price but not remarkable.
I am less worried about routing than about what happens when someone trips over a cable. No SLA, no monthly option, no refund. That is three red flags for production use.
larryjeong
Member
I bought two. One in their "EU" location, one in their US location for comparison. The US one routes through Cogent in New Jersey. The EU one hits Level3 in Amsterdam then disappears into someone else's ASN.
So not their own network in EU. Resold transit at best, reseller cage at worst.
$3/year. 128MB RAM. Pure happiness.
WootSofia
Member
larryjeong said:
Disappears into someone else's ASN
This is normal. Even Hetzner buys transit. The question is: do they have their own IP space and LOA, or are they subletting someone else's /24?
If subletting: they can vanish overnight when the upstream gets a better tenant. Seen it three times in Sofia.
I asked about IP ownership before ordering. They said "we use premium blended IP services."
That is not an answer. That is a haiku.
blu1999 said:
That is a haiku.
5-7-5 syllables? Let me check:
"we use pre-mi-um
Blen-ded IP ser-vi-ces"
5-7-5. It IS a haiku.
Carl3, keyboard defender and now poetry critic.
Zurich1984
Member
larryjeong said:
Disappears into someone else's ASN
ASN lookup shows HostSlick US under AS-CHOOPA. EU location announces from same ASN, different /24. So not subletting IP, but single ASN for both continents means if they have a routing dispute in US, EU goes down too.
Not diverse. Not terrible. Just not diverse.
/24 for sale. No lowballs.
olya said:
Oracle covers this use case at zero cost
Oracle covers Oracle's use case at Oracle's convenience. Their TOS lets them terminate "always free" for any reason including "resource optimization." That phrase appeared in my friend's termination email.
Zero cost, zero contract, zero recourse.
center807
Member OP
Zurich1984 said:
Single ASN for both continents
Good catch. I missed that. So much for "enterprise-grade network redundancy."
I am going to pass on the pre-order. My €30 is better spent on a Hetzner CX11 where I know the building exists.