15 engineers on Hacker News describe using SoftLayer first-hand: 4 endorse it, 5 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Softlayer was a very nice place to get bare metal hosting... support in general was getting worse”
mixed · production · toast0 · 2020-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“IBM wanted 50% more for the same config, already quite high (twice as much as we pay elsewhere).”
regret · production · jake_morrison · 2018-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We actually did run on Softlayer. It was a nightmare. They have consistently some outage somewhere.”
regret · production · doh · 2016-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“found Softlayer was the best performance for what we do for the money”
endorse · production · blakesterz · 2016-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Softlayer made my "do not do business with again" list after about 3 years of renting a server from them.”
regret · production · 3 yr · sokoloff · 2016-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it was thee biggest pain in the ass we've had to deal with in a LONG time. Everything required a support ticket.”
regret · production · click170 · 2016-02-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“being able to schedule your own maintenance windows is so much nicer. We spend less time dealing with problems on our own hardware”
regret · production · brongondwana · 2015-03-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run http://firehose.io/ on smaller SoftLayer metal servers and get around 10k connections per box.”
endorse · production · bradgessler · 2013-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used both. SoftLayer in my opinion has faster and more price efficient offerings. Always gone with them and never regret it.”
endorse · production · gsibble · 2012-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run a few additional pre-built Cloud Computing Units (as they call it) and are ready in 20 minutes.”
endorse · production · hasanove · 2011-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“manually ask some human at softlayer to provision new servers”
neutral · production · nojvek · 2020-01-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“with SoftLayer HTTP load balancers in front of uWSGI”
neutral · production · CoffeeDregs · 2015-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run on the cloud in AWS and SoftLayer”
neutral · production · manigandham · 2015-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we built out on SoftLayer for much the same reasons as the article - real hardware where you need it.”
neutral · production · brongondwana · 2015-03-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run cloudant clusters in nearly 20 data centers globally on many different providers (ec2, softlayer, rackspace, joyent, azure, hostway, ...)”
neutral · production · mlmilleratmit · 2012-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?