[rishifromtiingo]

For those of you asking about Packet reliability - been a huge fan of them and supported them where I can. My blog post and company have been on the front page of HN before. Here are my benchmarks: http://blog.tiingo.com/switched-away-aws-packet-net-benchmar...

Since I've been with them, I haven't experienced any downtime except for block storage where I knew getting into it that it was in alpha at that time and I was an early tester. Even that downtime was at 99.9% and they had engineers on the phone with me throughout the night updating me even though it was only down for a couple hours. They don't charge me extra for support which was nice.

I ended up deciding to use their NVME storage for faster performance.

I can't recommend them enough. The backend of Tiingo would not be possible without them and their co-founders and engineering staff helped me quite a bit when I was looking for an AWS replacement. Took a chance with them a year ago (before Series A) and don't regret it.

I went to them initially as I have market feeds coming from NY4/NY5 and AWS network throughput wasn't good enough. Data was delayed and inconsistent. Also Packet had a data center in NJ, 25ish miles from the market data center whereas AWS had it in Northern VA which was hundreds of miles.

Right now I have real-time market streaming and the only downtime I've experienced has been user error. I usually have the #packethost freenode channel up if anybody wants to ask me directly (rishiattiingo)

Hope this is helpful