Show HN: Carolina Cloud – the farm-to-table of cloud computing

We were getting smashed with AWS bills and despite not having much background in it, realized that assembling our own hardware is about the same as 1-3 months of renting it on AWS. It was a no-brainer to build our own.

We since started expanding to friends and family, and are proud to report we've saved several small businesses massive amounts of money.

We are based in North Carolina with latency to us-east-1 of less than 8ms. We have had 99.99% uptime over the past year. And we charge between 1/3 and 1/2 of an equivalent AWS machine (usually closer to 1/3) while offering a 300% refund for any downtime.

We are not the best fit for mission-critical things like consumer banking apps, FedNow or the Instagram backend, but we're perfect for things like high RAM instances for data science experimentation, getting your feet wet with GPUs and CUDA and hosting a RAM-intensive backend for your iOS app or Chrome Extension.

We also offer direct phone support...we have backgrounds in finance, software engineering and data centers ourselves so we'd love to help you strategize.

Oh yeah, and we have GPUs.