CloudSigma Blog
cloudsigma.com · Company blog · on HN since 2010
CloudSigma, a Zurich-based infrastructure cloud provider, uses its blog for outage notices, pricing, and posts about cloud storage and IaaS openness.
What HN saysHN commenters discuss it as a European alternative to Amazon, asking about experience with it. CloudSigma staff also posted its price schedule link.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Cloudsigma has had five outages this week, approx. 10 hours total5 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 2Price schedules2 people · first shared 2010
- 3A public cloud taking a stand against government intrusion1 people · 29 points · first shared 2013 · 15 comments on HN
- 4How your data gets compromised in an IaaS cloud: Vendor tells all1 people · 26 points · first shared 2010 · 24 comments on HN
- 5Death of the Pure IaaS Cloud: Part 2-1 people · 25 points · first shared 2011 · 5 comments on HN
- 6Future of Cloud Storage: An inside perspective from an IaaS vendor1 people · 19 points · first shared 2010 · 17 comments on HN
- 7Debian 6.0 cloud servers launched with full root access1 people · 18 points · first shared 2011 · 12 comments on HN
- 8Secret weapon of one IaaS Vendor: Utilisation management -- dynamic pricing1 people · 16 points · first shared 2010 · 8 comments on HN
- 9We say end IaaS walled gardens1 people · 16 points · first shared 2011 · 8 comments on HN
- 10Death of the Pure IaaS Cloud: The impact on customers1 people · 15 points · first shared 2011 · 7 comments on HN
- 11CERN, EMBL & ESA launch Helix Nebula, a European Science cloud1 people · 13 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12Cloud Affiliate Program: How to Make Money with CloudSigma Part 11 people · 8 points · first shared 2011 · 4 comments on HN
- 13CloudSigma now offers remote VM access by fax1 people · 7 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 14Fedora 14 cloud servers launched with full root access by CloudSigma1 people · 6 points · first shared 2010 · 2 comments on HN
- 15Jclouds & libcloud add support for the CloudSigma public IaaS cloud1 people · 5 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
lobster_johnson · 2013-07-10
Cloud 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.
JonasH · 2011-04-15
Does 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.
teoruiz · 2010-12-01
Cloudsigma 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/
cloudsigma · 2010-10-27
All our pricing is available at http://www.cloudsigma.com/en/pricing/price-schedules .
Best wishes,
CloudSigma
buro9 · 2013-07-05
http://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 the UK, and expansion plans are
for the EU only.
We believe strongly in data protection and obey all the relevant laws. I agree
that ISPs really *should* be considered "mere conduits" but unfortunately there
is legal precedent that means we can be held responsible for defamatory content
if we're notified and do nothing about it.
Usually, solicitors for the allegedly defamed contacts both us and our customer.
If our customer is unresponsive or uncooperative and the alleged defamation
continues, then we get held responsible.
So our AUP considers defamation abuse to enable us to take action to protect
ourselves if we have to. The only other option available to us would be to have
customers indemnify us against any legal action (most likely in the form of
a large deposit :).
But we're not interested in suspending accounts or servers any time a
solicitor writes to us. If you deal with the reports in a timely fashion (usually
within 48 hours) then you shouldn't expect any problems.
And for what…
morganvachon · 2014-11-22
skorgu · 2010-10-27
Apologies 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-redundancy.
Source: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing
EBS is $0.10 per allocated GB per month.
Source: http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/