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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

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Post by eahman11 »

adventured wrote: post #38
eahman09 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Your point about OVH still falls flat for a US audience, unless saving a few dollars is a critical concern. $20 for 4gb of ram, 4tb of bandwidth and 2 cpus at Linode is a rip-off? I guess if someone were quite lacking in funds and needed the absolute most cut-rate VPS prices they can get, it might be viewed as a rip-off. That's a legitimate issue if so, sure. By all counts Linode in fact provides a tremendous service…

I'm talking about lowly priced servers for development, test purposes, or hosting small non-critical websites.

For bigger budgets there are a thousand options better than Linode. Linode is not competitive at any price range and they only have their name.

Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers

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Post by blunte »

krn wrote: post #8
andy_ppp wrote: post #3

Can I have everything be as simple as Digital Ocean but still use their Managed Services like RDS?

OVH provides Cloud Database[1], but only up to 4 GB RAM / 64 GB storage. [1] https://www.ovh.co.uk/cloud/cloud-databases/

OVH is a horrible company if anything goes wrong or if you have a billing issue.

Their tech and pricing may be good, but if there's any problem you'll spend a lot of time trying to deal with them or you'll just give up a let your wasted payment fly away...

Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers

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Post by scarface74 »

Hopefully this won't be taken as an anti-MS rant. I've been developing exclusively on Microsoft's platforms for over 20 years.

But, if developing and hosting in a cloud environment doesn't convince you to go Linux, nothing will.

While for the most part as far as feature parity and development tools, AWS treats Windows developers like first class citizens. The "Windows Tax" is clear in AWS when you can see the cost difference between running the same instance size with Linux as Windows.

Even worse, realistically, running any Windows instance with less than 8GB of RAM is painful. Your minimum cost is $70 a month.

Being in the Windows world so long, I was amazed when I started using AWS and found how much you could do with relatively few resources in the Linux world.

I never cared before, I was using other people's money.

But I'm not leaving .Net Core, its made transistioning to Linux hosted development less painful.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-update-mor...

Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers

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Post by tnolet »

adventured wrote: post #25
jayonsoftware wrote: post #19

LightSail 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.

I was pleasantly surprised by the quality and ease of use of Vultr. Really on par with DO.

Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers

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Post by markvdb »

eahman09 wrote: post #12
cbg0 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If all you're interested in comparing is price, then yes it is still expensive, but there are other considerations such as network quality, support responsiveness, the actual performance of the VPS.

Maybe OVH, Scaleway and Hetzner are better than DO and Linode in that regard.

OVH better than the others in any regard?

That's rather optimist speculation about a company whose incompetence almost lost my business its primary domain name... twice. Shame on me for not taking appropriate measures after the first time. They should be renamed Incompetence Ltd.

This sounds like a rant because it is one. It's been a few years, but I'll never forget the several mandays I spent troubleshooting OVH's incompetence.

Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers

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Post by yread »

sgzfx wrote: post #39
eahman09 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe OVH, Scaleway and Hetzner are better than DO and Linode in that regard.

My experience with Scaleway is that most of the time things are fine, but over 2-3 years there have been multiple very very annoying outages that have made me want to go back to DO, where I've had no issues whatsoever. Also, I'm not sure if it's just me being an idiot or not - but sometimes my instances have become unresponsive and I've had to reboot them with a newer bootscript from the Scaleway UI to get them worki…

And how is the performance of the "Avoton" Atom CPUs?

Re: AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers

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Post by nicolaslem »

krn wrote: post #8
andy_ppp wrote: post #3

Can I have everything be as simple as Digital Ocean but still use their Managed Services like RDS?

OVH provides Cloud Database[1], but only up to 4 GB RAM / 64 GB storage. [1] https://www.ovh.co.uk/cloud/cloud-databases/

Disclaimer: former OVH employee

I set up a small personal service a few months ago. My requirements were being dirt cheap and not having to manage anything statefull myself.

After looking at all cheap providers, very few of them had managed databases. So I ended up using OVH VPS + Postgres cloud database. The combo costs me 10€/month and runs surprisingly smoothly.

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