So a regular EC2 T2.medium with 4GB RAM is $39 while a LightSail 4GB is $20. Damn. Need to switch some EC2 workload to LightSail.
AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers
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Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers
#22DO and Linode are very expensive compared to OVH, Scaleway or Hetzner. So this reads as "Lightsail announces 50% price drop, will still be very expensive" (From another comment: https://snag.gy/3Q1fL0.jpg ) -> $3.50 for 512 MB of RAM is a fucking rip-off compared to this: https://www.scaleway.com/
Scaleaway is meaningless unless you're located in Europe. If you're in the developed world, $2 vs $5 etc does not matter in most cases. The most important factor is that your host does what you need it to do, that the network is excellent and your servers are located where you need them to be. If you're an American business you'd be foolish to host your servers in the EU. Locating your servers in the EU opens you up…
I am European and it's 11 here; I'm talking to an European audience.
OVH has got a datacenter in Canada with good prices, compared to the rip-off Linode is.
Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers
#23Why is there only 3 providers there ? This should probably include others like OVH, Scaleway, Vultr,
The first section explained what kind of VPS were collected. Vultr sometimes charge estimated monthly costs ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13073048 ) , so it was not listed.
I've been using Vultr for years and they've never charged me more than my monthly usage. A n=1 report from two years ago doesn't seem like a great reason to leave them out; I'm sure you can find complaints about every other provider's billing as well.
Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers
#24Kimsufi has dedicated servers starting at 5$ per month. Yes, it's an atom, but it's yours alone, and is going to beat these on performance, memory and riskspace.
No ECC RAM, also their network isn't exactly top tier and many complain about support. You will get what you pay for.
Kimsufi gets de-prioritised compared to other services on OVH’s network and there are capacity issues.
This is probably due to the fact that a lot of people use them for cheap 24x7 torrent boxes rather than the cheap personal VPS alternative they were intended as.
Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers
#25LightSail is the only vendor in this space to offer Windows hosting.
I know they're not listed in the comparison, however Vultr has superior Windows Server hosting as compared to LightSail. Their network is a lot faster and their servers are better. I aggressively recommend Vultr over LightSail if you're using Windows for something.
Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers
#26great news, I love spinning up Lightsail instances for new projects!! my current running instances are not updated, I suppose I have to recreate them then.. Edit: It seems they have added new instance types. My current instances are now 3.50$ https://snag.gy/3Q1fL0.jpg
Wow, tree fiddy. How is cpu usage on these nodes? Aren't they oversubscribed as hell?
I havent noticed it any. I deploy .net core application + loadbalancers and db.
Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers
#27What does "Consistent 100% CPU usage" means? Does it mean that if I get the instance and use CPU on 100% it will shut it down?
Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers
#28Wish Google Cloud could have this kind of price point. 1vCPU + 1GB RAM on GCP is $19.22
Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers
#29Can I have everything be as simple as Digital Ocean but still use their Managed Services like RDS?
You can but you have to deal with the latency between your host and the RDS instance hosted by AWS.
Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also hetzner cloud I dont know about the cores that hetzner provides and how they compare to the competitors, but ~3$ for a somewhat usable VPS is damn competetive (not affiliated with hetzner in any way, other than I have one of those 3$ instances)
I'm a Hetzner customer, too, but I'm quite sad that Hetzner doesn't really allow DNS configuration via a centralized REST(-like) API. You can configure DNS via an email interface but there are no officially supported libraries available and it's very clunky [1]. You effectively have to roll your own DNS servers or chose another DNS provider if you want to manage a lot of servers dynamically. 1: https://wiki.hetzner.d…
The feature I would really like is some kind of virtual networking. Even a basic VPC would be welcome, with access rules and a virtual address space. It wouldn't have to be as comprehensive as AWS. Then again, it's cheap.