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For anyone that wants faster and cheaper hosting than what the big cloud providers offer, and wants to be able to get a hold of an engineer who cares when they need support.

No commitments
No setup fee
Service & support are via email or over Telegram. You will always get an engineer.
Provisioning time is generally 7-10 days. VMs may be faster, custom hardware might take longer.
Fast, local NVME disks
Baremetal or virtual machines
Managed by us (regular OS upgrades, backups, firewalls, etc) or managed by you.
No ads, no spam
We can can help you move from AWS, GCP, Azure etc.

Pricing

$17.00 vCPU (thread)
$3.00 GB RAM
$0.08 GB of disk

Pick the amount you want of each. Bare metal instances receive 1 Gbps Ethernet port, 20TB/mo of bandwidth, and a public IPv4 address.

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Why

Hey, I am Jordan, the founder.

Prior to founding Noion Labs my career involved a lot of cloud based DevOps. But there are trade offs with the cloud. Primarily you trade price and performance for the ability to make immediate changes. There are other trades too, in exchange for vendor lock in you can have (expensive) services and in exchange for lots more money you might get good customer service.

I didn't like those trade offs, so, being an engineer built a different set:

Beat the cloud provider's prices.
Fast, local NVME storage.
Buy networking connectivity differently, and pass on the savings.
Customer service is a core part of the offering.

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How

We build and rack our own servers. (We may offload some workloads to other providers, but the core, and what allows us to be profitable, is running our own hardware).

Instances have fast, local NVME drives.

We buy bandwidth differently, and offer large, free, allotments of egress bandwidth to customers.

We don't have sales people, we don't outsource support.

We run a small, tight, frugal company. The things that customers need should be easy, the rest is optional. Notice that we didn't pay a designer for the website...

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FAQ

Q: Does this actually work?

A: Well, we've been doing it since 2023, and customers are happy, and we are happy.

Q: Is this really cheaper than cloud hosting?

A: Our goal is to be at least 25% less expensive than cloud hosting. The logical next step then is to work out how much cloud hosting costs, and the best answer appears to be its complicated

So we set our prices by comparison with AWS's EC2 on demand instances with dedicated resources (i.e. not the T/burstable SKUs).

For comparison on AWS a c5.large provides 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM and costs $62.05 (plus costs for disk, bandwidth, etc).

Our price for the same machine would be $46.

Q: Everyone knows AWS is the cheapest place to buy hosting

A: There is a ton of marketing that says so, but we do cost less. If you look beyond the marketing, AWS has been a cash cow for Amazon for a long time. They charge a premium for the elasticity that they provide — increase servers, storage, etc at the click of a button or with an API request. So long as you haven't hit your provisioning limits, that is. If you are willing to give up that elasticity — committing to steady use for years, prepaying for years, etc you can get the cost back down towards reasonable.

Q: What is this telegram thing?

A: It is a secure chat service, available via the web, on Android, or iOS. See telegram.org. It is free, popular, and has a solid reputation for security.

Q: What OS's are supported?

A: We are willing to setup any open source OS. Linux distros are generally straightforward, and we can work with various BSDs etc. We are also happy to go further afield (Redox, illumos, etc). We support a free choice of OS!

Support for unusual OSes is best effort, it may not be possible to run what you want on hardware we have or can obtain, or under our hypervisor. We haven't run into a request we couldn't fulfill, but know that it is possible.

Q: Can I get custom hardware?

A: Yes! Contact us about your needs.

Q: Where are your data centers?

A: We rent space from a DC in the eastern US, and from one in the western US.

Q: How long have you been doing this?

A: Since 2023.

Q: Where is Noion Lab's about us page?

A: We are a small company and love small companies. We want to stay small enough that we can recognize each of our customers. Our headquarters are Kalispell Montana.

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Still have questions? email support@noionlabs.com