Depends on what you want. It's used (for many years usually) Hardware which increases the probability of failure and you only get whatever single configuration is currently available. It's nice though that they offer you to cancel at no charge for 14 days and the variety of configurations available which are often more asymmetric compared to their usual offerings, e.g. if you primarily need a lot of disk space you don't have to pay for a lot of RAM and a fast CPU.
That doesn't sound like an issue though if you just need something cheap for now to just get going. You can keep in mind that it could fail any time and just plan around that (for now).
But they're aimed at individuals who want to buy something cheaply. Larger business customers will want to be able to say we want X of Y machine and will pay the premium to get it.
True, but for the sake of easy management I would still imagine the OpenStack setup to be better. Hopefully they will add some configuration options that make it possible to choose every server type in their lineup to be configured as OpenStack cloud.
We've noticed a larger-than-normal number of disk failures on second-hand auctioned systems. Be sure to get one with a fresh, "enterprise-grade" drive.
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the auction servers seem like better bang for the buck
Depends on what you want. It's used (for many years usually) Hardware which increases the probability of failure and you only get whatever single configuration is currently available. It's nice though that they offer you to cancel at no charge for 14 days and the variety of configurations available which are often more asymmetric compared to their usual offerings, e.g. if you primarily need a lot of disk space you don't have to pay for a lot of RAM and a fast CPU.
That doesn't sound like an issue though if you just need something cheap for now to just get going. You can keep in mind that it could fail any time and just plan around that (for now).
But they're aimed at individuals who want to buy something cheaply. Larger business customers will want to be able to say we want X of Y machine and will pay the premium to get it.
True, but for the sake of easy management I would still imagine the OpenStack setup to be better. Hopefully they will add some configuration options that make it possible to choose every server type in their lineup to be configured as OpenStack cloud.
We've noticed a larger-than-normal number of disk failures on second-hand auctioned systems. Be sure to get one with a fresh, "enterprise-grade" drive.