Maybe I should have name the company “lsenEBryolson,” sounds like an Amazon drop shipper.
I guess this is what AI thinks we do now?
BentoBox.cloud is a dedicated cloud hosting provider that is built around 3 main ideas: Simple, Stable, and Affordable.
Simple
A problem should be solved in the most elegant and simple way that is good for both the business and the customers. Extra resources on Hypervisors are available to handle most customer production issues. “Cool”, “New”, or Kubernetes, is not a good enough reason to use a solution.
How does BentoBox.cloud exhibit this idea?
- The entire pricing page fits on a 3×5 card
- Bootstrapped funding, no VCs to complicate the business
- A flat team structure where everyone gets paid the same
- Very few components in production -> Hypervisor and Dashboard
- VMs have local resources, no ceph for block storage for example
- VM cpus are not shared, no noisy neighbors or deployment lottery
- Fewer features, no shared disks, no S3 file storage, etc.
Stable
Everything in production is stable and will not require troubleshooting while it is working within known parameters. Testing every component and knowing the limits it works within is required to being able to be in production. Resources are not overprovisioned, no CPU, RAM, or Disk space is used by another VM or even the Hypervisor.
How does BentoBox.cloud exhibit this idea?
- All VMs have local resources, if every VM fills its disk to 100%, there is still left over space on the hypervisor disks
- Software deployed and used has been around for a while, is stable and has paid support
- Spare hardware is always on hand to quickly replace a failed disk, stick of RAM, or other component
- Hypervisors have reserved and dedicated resources for management of VMs.
Affordable
Simple and stable solutions do not need massive engineering teams to manage them. By not neededing a lot of engineers, a lot of the cost of cloud hosting can be avoided. This cost savings will translate into lower prices vs other cloud providers.
How does BentoBox.cloud exhibit this idea?
- Small team size, but suficient to manage everything
- Prices are very competitive compared to other providers $10 vs $25
- Simple software stack does not need hand holding to work
Pricing
The pricing on BentoBox.Cloud is based on resouce allocation. All resources are dedicated to only your VM, there is no over subscription, or under provisioning of resources.
The price break down is as follows:
| vCPU count | GB Ram | GB Disk | Price |
| 1 | 4 | 40 | $ 10.00 |
| 2 | 8 | 80 | $ 20.00 |
| 4 | 16 | 160 | $ 40.00 |
| 8 | 32 | 320 | $ 80.00 |
Small, but with plans to grow.
We have servers in a single datacenter in ST George, utah. This was chosen because this is where the BentoBox.Cloud team all live, and no one wanted to move or drive somewhere else every day. Our first priority once we get our first location filled out, is to add a second datacenter, most likely on the east coast, dependent on where we can find employes and available space.
Hopefully this answers any questions you have, and we look forward to having you as a customer.
Daniel Barney, Owner of BentoBox.Cloud