https://www.nico-maas.de/tags/review/ Recent content in Review on Nico Maas Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 26 Dec 2016 17:31:32 +0000 https://www.nico-maas.de/posts/2016-12-26-review-packet-net/ Mon, 26 Dec 2016 17:31:32 +0000 https://www.nico-maas.de/posts/2016-12-26-review-packet-net/ <p>There are a lot of companies providing cloud services today: Amazons AWS, DigitalOcean, Heroku - just to name a few. Being an ARM-SoC-Fanboy however (well, I do too much RPi and Co stuff.. ^^&rsquo;), I run into Packet.net - another cloud services provider - but with a little twist: Packet.net does offer Bare Metal Services. So you do not order &ldquo;another VM&rdquo;, but the Hardware itself. They claim to have it provisioned within 8 Minutes (Source: <a class="link" href="https://www.packet.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >https://www.packet.net/</a>) and you also can use a ton of specialized stuff (some servers even got NVMe flash). But what really caught my attention, was the Type-2A server, an Cavium 96 Core ARMv8 @ 2GHz with 128 GB of DDR4 RAM and some SSD space - for 0,50 USD / hour (More Info <a class="link" href="http://www.cavium.com/newsevents-Packet-Introduces-Global-ARMv8-A-Bare-Metal-Cloud-to-Power-Container-and-IoT-Workloads.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >here</a>, <a class="link" href="https://www.packet.net/blog/arming-the-world-with-an-arm64-bare-metal-server/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >here</a> and <a class="link" href="https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >here</a>. So I decided to follow Packet.net on Twitter.</p>