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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 sitkack » Sat, Aug 25, 2018, 3:20 AM UTC

ksec wrote: post #55

sudhirj wrote: post #42

This is probably based on the new T3 release. https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/aws-announces-avai... I'm guessing they're able to do burstable offerings with better baseline and burst at a lower cost than before.

That would make sense. But T3 are comparatively speaking, much slower than DO and Linode. When Lightsail were first released those benchmarks won't any good at all. The only reason for using Lightsail is you want all those Amazon Services, which your LightSail can hook up free of transfer using Private Network.

Wait, so you can read from an S3 bucket for free using LightSail but egress at LightSail prices?

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

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Post by sudhirj » Sat, Aug 25, 2018, 5:39 AM UTC

sitkack wrote: post #71

ksec wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would make sense. But T3 are comparatively speaking, much slower than DO and Linode. When Lightsail were first released those benchmarks won't any good at all. The only reason for using Lightsail is you want all those Amazon Services, which your LightSail can hook up free of transfer using Private Network.

Wait, so you can read from an S3 bucket for free using LightSail but egress at LightSail prices?

Yes, but I think lightsail egress is more expensive than s3 egress. On my phone, but isn’t lightsail 9 cents a GB to S3 being 8 cents? Think regular ec2 is 8 cents as well, or is that 12?

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

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Post by extra88 » Sat, Aug 25, 2018, 2:01 PM UTC

sudhirj wrote: post #72

sitkack wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, so you can read from an S3 bucket for free using LightSail but egress at LightSail prices?

Yes, but I think lightsail egress is more expensive than s3 egress. On my phone, but isn’t lightsail 9 cents a GB to S3 being 8 cents? Think regular ec2 is 8 cents as well, or is that 12?

Lightsail includes a data transfer allowance, starting at 1TB, though importantly both data in and out is counted against the allowance. In the vast majority of cases, the allowance is enough. If you do use all the allowance, data transfer out charges are $.09/GB in most regions, the same as EC2 and S3, at least for the first 10TB.

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

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Post by BrandoElFollito » Sun, Aug 26, 2018, 8:04 AM UTC

jaxondu wrote: post #36

aepiepaey wrote: post #31

On the far low end, BuyVM has a $15/year plan (1 core, 128M ram, 15G disk, 500G bandwidth). Has been working well so far (a few years), though haven't really been close to any resource limits (yet).

What do you use it for?

I would use for anything I put on a RPi: a DNS server, a MQTT backend, some light backends for a web app (I need to connect to some light services and prices their output into a JSON), a monitoring service,...

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

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Post by BrandoElFollito » Sun, Aug 26, 2018, 8:12 AM UTC

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/

I hate OVH (despite my patriotic conscience which yells "achetez français" :)) for what they did with the bandwidth to hubic services. It was close to zero, completely unusable.

Their customer service completely sucks, to the point they told me that they do need me.

I kepy this in mind when signing up for a huge cloud contract where I told them straight that the way they treat their customers shows. They could have told me many things but not "fuck off, go somewhere else". This cost them a lot of money but they did not learn anything when I recontacted them again from my personal account and the customer service was still the same (of course I could have used the contacts I had there but I wanted to see if the situation impoved).