What is Softlayer?

[Deleted74295]

Just saw this:

https://www.softlayer.com/info/five-hundred?utm_source=spiceworks&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=500BUILD|Storage|300x600|GIF&utm_campaign=sl_branding_spiceworks_emea&utm_term={keyword}&placement={placement}#

Looks like an IBM hosting platform? And they are giving away $500 of credit on the system?

Is that right?

[scottalanmiller]

Softlayer, formerly The Planet, is IBM's Cloud Hosting division. It's a direct competitor with Rackspace.

[scottalanmiller]

Softlayer is the fourth of the big four cloud hosts: Amazon, Azure, Rackspace, IBM/Softlayer.

Amazon, Rackspace and Softlayer are all Xen based.

[scottalanmiller]

Rackspace DFW is actually located inside of Softlayer.

[Deleted74295]

Hmm, at £0.32 pence an hour for

8GB Ram
Xeon E3-1270
Server 2012 R2
1TB Sata in Raid

For a server in Paris, looks really great

[scottalanmiller]

Have you compared that pricing to Amazon, Azure, Digital Ocean or Vultr?

[scottalanmiller]

@Breffni-Potter said:

Hmm, at £0.32 pence an hour for

8GB Ram
Xeon E3-1270
Server 2012 R2
1TB Sata in Raid

For a server in Paris, looks really great

Very different offerings but Vultr has a similar server for $.12/hr which is a tiny fraction of that price. Just for comparison.