GoScale
Infrastructure
cloud hosting platform
SHOW HN2012
118points
60comments
#174of 1,677 in 2012
Top 11%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
7 positive, 23 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 19 critical, out of 50 comments about the project. Thread score -0.18.
Idea: 4 for, 5 againstPerformance: 1 for, 6 againstDesign: 0 for, 4 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Early test accounts worked as described and support was friendly
From 1 comment
I came across GoScale two weeks ago. As somebody passionate about server technology I was both intrigued and very skeptical. Frankly I thought it was another MVP that would never…
bst on HN
Idea is big and useful if it works
From 2 comments
Great stuff. This is big, if you can pull it off.
spinlocked on HNThe need is there. Looking forward to taking it for a test drive.
kensnyder on HN
Objections
Overcommitted capacity and economics are unclear
From 3 comments
That seems like a rather strange concept. In practice they will have to drastically undersell their hosts in order to guarantee the burst-capacity. If you need to reserve 8G for…
moe on HNEven the most magical cloud in the world is backed up by real computers with real memory constraints. No matter what happens, one time or the other this memory constraint will be…
fcoury on HNI supposed that's the point I was working towards: they must be overcommitted, so it's a funny thing to be cagey about. The exact numbers don't matter as much.
regularfry on HN
Claimed 2-second migration seems physically implausible
From 2 comments
This happens within 2 seconds. I'm sorry but statements like that freak me out a bit. Do I get a warning when my instance is going to be migrated instead of resized, and an…
moe on HNActually.. If you had all of the instance data stored on a fast SAN, so that it was available to all of the hosts simultaneously (possible.) And you had an ultra-high speed…
devopstom on HN
Vague technical answers and lack of detail
From 2 comments
I gave you my email address before coming here and reading the comments. Now I regret it. I feel like the representatives of GoScale here are not doing themselves much good. They…
encoderer on HNbut only within the resoure limits of a single VM? I suppose the normal usage pattern would be to rent as many of their smallest VMs as needed for your base-load, and then scale…
moe on HN
Resizing is nothing new (Zones, OpenVZ, LXC)
From 2 comments
This "virtual server resizing" and sub-second VM booting is nothing new to Solaris users, who've been quietly doing it for years with Zones. Of course, you have to use Solaris to…
bensummers on HNIt's nothing new on Linux either. OpenVz / Virtuozzo and LXC provides the same for Linux. OpenVz has been around for years.
vidarh on HN
Requests
More technical detail on how resizing works
From 2 comments
Can you give more details on that? What happens when I have, say, 50x 512M instances and decide to resize them all at once to 8G? Or do you generally limit the burst-capacity to…
moe on HNI gave you my email address before coming here and reading the comments. Now I regret it. I feel like the representatives of GoScale here are not doing themselves much good. They…
encoderer on HN
Documented limitations up front
From 1 comment
So instead of telling us the limitations up front, we have to sign up for your service and stress test it ourselves to find out.
toomuchtodo on HN
Fix website layout and iPhone scaling
From 2 comments
Ironically, the site doesn't scale very well on an iPhone.
secoif on HNjesus, I was like why do I care about a blank page? Whether on purpose or not, the "pages" are sized exactly the same size as my viewport (900 height screen). Give me a hint…
tedunangst on HN
Questions
How does pricing and capacity overcommit work
From 2 comments
It's a neat technology and I'm very interested in using it. It's almost a perfect fit for my business, which deals with serving traffic during email spikes. I think the questions…
mnutt on HNThat seems like a rather strange concept. In practice they will have to drastically undersell their hosts in order to guarantee the burst-capacity. If you need to reserve 8G for…
moe on HN
Is this a replacement for StackBlaze
From 1 comment
Is this a replacement for your current offering at http://stackblaze.com/ or a new company ?
whyleyc on HN
How is JVM memory handled when scaling down
From 1 comment
How is something like the JVM handled (when scaling down), which seems averse to letting go of its memory?
k4st on HN
Alternatives named
Joyent SmartDataCenter and SmartOS Zones
From 2 comments
This "virtual server resizing" and sub-second VM booting is nothing new to Solaris users, who've been quietly doing it for years with Zones. Of course, you have to use Solaris to…
bensummers on HNIf your aim is to be a PaaS vendor, you'd probably able to put something together much more quickly and cheaply by just licensing Joyent's SmartDataCenter product and building…
bensummers on HN
OpenVZ, Virtuozzo, LXC
From 1 comment
It's nothing new on Linux either. OpenVz / Virtuozzo and LXC provides the same for Linux. OpenVz has been around for years.
vidarh on HN
AWS, Google App Engine
From 1 comment
And this is different to any other services, like GAE, AWS, etc, how?
batista on HN