I don’t know how anyone, but our intensity of requests has increased (despite the fact that we reduced the intensity of advertising for a while, no, we are not talking about the context ). Apparently everyone is sitting at home and massively began to go online, which provoked an increase in Internet traffic in general, for which some of the popular resources and providers that provide Internet access or traffic transit were not quite ready. Verizon published statistics that their networks became so congested that they had to take action and introduce new QoS and even expand the network capacity with new connections, as web traffic increased by 20% in a week, video streaming by 12%, online games by 75%, while social network traffic remained unchanged. Yes, I almost forgot, VPN traffic has increased by 34%, as many have moved to work remotely. Perhaps this is a reason for many companies to realize that they do not need offices or they need them, but for a limited circle of specialists.
Is someone talking about a crisis? Fig you. The IT sector will also stimulate offline business, and it will experience and is already experiencing unprecedented growth, in certain segments of course. And for those who see these opportunities, this is an opportunity for explosive growth. No one will definitely be left without a job, just the activity is being transformed, along with the transformation of consumption values, and outsiders, alas, will suffer losses. As always.
The online industry is not possible without people, engineers doing work on the ground that cannot be done remotely and will be more valued. For example, assemble a new rack for servers, perform equipment installation, production and delivery. And the logistics of this work is changing significantly. Some data centers have divided engineering teams into groups and isolated them from each other. This minimizes the risk that engineers will fail at the same time and work will stop.
However, our supplier in the Netherlands recently gave us some insight that the iron warehouses in the Netherlands, which are used to assemble and deliver your orders, are almost empty due to global global psychosis and, as a result, insufficiently debugged business processes in the new restrictions:
Got some insight information that hardware supplier expects some shortage on the hardware. My question is that, will you be fine with 10x servers only?
That is, if earlier we ordered servers as needed in small batches, leaving a small amount of hardware in reserve, since we could deliver almost any server within 1-5 business days, a maximum of 14, now the situation will change. We are very sorry, but we want to warn you that there may be a delay in the execution of new orders of 1-2 months or even more. No new enterprise class servers, no good SSD or HDD, no new server racks, maybe even no new VPS!
And if two months ago, the delivery time for new SSD drives from Samsung strained with its uncertainty - 2-4 weeks (a container of orders was collected and sent to the Netherlands and the delays were due solely to Samsung's unwillingness to provide stock for the future). Today it becomes obvious that possible delays in the work of production, delivery of products, can increase many times over. Of course, we are creating some kind of reserve, taking into account demand indicators and our capabilities, but we are already asking all customers who think that an additional server may be needed in a month or two to place an order in advance. Reserve your infrastructures in advance, provide redundancy.
Recently, we launched an improved version of virtual servers with dedicated drives, a description of which can be found in the article , now the storages have become 2 times larger and the processors have higher frequencies, and :
E5-2697 v3 (6 Cores) / 10GB DDR4 / 480GB SSD / 1Gbps 10TB - $19/mo (billed 2 years), $29/month (billed 39 year), $XNUMX monthly
E5-2697 v3 (12 Cores) / 20GB DDR4 / 2x480GB SSD RAID1 / 1Gbps 20TB - $39 / month (billed for 2 years), $59 / month (billed for a year), $79 monthly
E5-2697 v3 (6 Cores) / 10GB DDR4 / 2x4TB HDD RAID1 / 1Gbps 10TB - $19/month (billed for 2 years), $29/month (billed for a year), $39 monthly
E5-2697 v3 (12 Cores) / 20GB DDR4 / 4x4TB HDD RAID10 / 1Gbps 20TB - $39/month (billed for 2 years), $59/month (billed for a year), $79 monthly
Now, we are facing the fact that 480GB SSDs have increased in price by almost a quarter over the past 2 weeks due to demand and production or shipping restrictions (while 960GB SSDs are only 3% so far, although they previously added 10 to the price). possibly for other reasons). Thankfully they are still there. We will try not to raise prices for as long as possible, although this is a direct loss for us. Perhaps, if the situation with storage prices does not change, it will make sense to start offering VPS using 960GB SSD. But here is another problem, not everyone needs so much quota, and not everyone, especially now, is ready to overpay for it.
Another problem that we faced is that new racks are needed to accommodate new servers, and given the fact that many data centers, including ours, have introduced new procedures and restrictions for access to the data center, building new racks is difficult and also experiencing delays. This issue is currently being resolved and in the near future, we hope, procedures will be worked out to expand the infrastructure in the current conditions.
Internet traffic is on the rise. In Europe, consumption has already increased by up to 30%, which has led not only to a decrease in the speed of access, but also to the fact that some of the networks were completely unprepared for such a level of consumption. As a result, the operators of popular streaming services were asked to reduce the quality of the stream for some of the regions so that the networks could somehow cope with the increased load. Already, many of the operators are building new and new connections to correct the current situation. And companies like XBox are asking their partners to release video game updates only Monday through Thursday, and only during the 4-hour night period for the North American region.
According to statistics service Ookla, the average download speed has fallen by 38% in San Jose, while in New York - by 24% and the peak has not yet been reached. ISPs have said they can meet the increased traffic demand and are already ramping up capacity. Verizon, Cox, and AT&T are already increasing the density of mobile towers (since even from home, many of their subscribers are dependent on mobile networks), as well as the number of fiber connections on their network backbones, updating routing and switching technology, which together allows for increased bandwidth and more effectively distribute it among subscribers.
Orange, formerly owned by France Télécom, has doubled the capacity of its submarine fiber optic networks (perhaps by buying back reserves from other providers, as building so many new links in such a short period seems unlikely). In Italy, where home Internet consumption has increased by 90 percent, Telecom Italia has hired many engineers to maintain and increase network capacity. Vodafone, one of Europe's largest mobile operators, has increased its capacity by 50 percent in recent weeks thanks to a combination of software and the installation of additional hardware at key nodes. That is, despite the difficulties, each of the operators finds its own ways to meet demand, the question is how this will affect prices.
The whole world goes online because of the need to stay at home, and our task is to provide this demand! Therefore, if you are planning in the coming months, or even if you are not planning yet, but you have such an opportunity, order yourself a backup VPS or a server for your own project. Because if a server is suddenly needed, it may simply not be available, or you will have to order it at much more expensive prices against the backdrop of increased demand. This may be our last chance to offer you enterprise-class equipment at the price of a conventional one for the long term, as there is a 90% chance that prices for new orders will increase, in addition to large delays in delivery. And what the situation will be like in a month or two, while no one can say, but we need to work and develop, especially now, when all the possibilities are open for this.
According to the statistics for today, which can be seen , the network has over 4,5 billion people who have created over 1,7 billion websites. This means that there is always a place for ideas and your own projects, and we will try to help you with this by ensuring the availability of servers and, as always, the lowest prices for you. And perhaps your own server now can be a good investment in the future.
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