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Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by k2enemy » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 4:59 PM UTC

I'd love to give this a try for my mail server that is currently hosted on Linode. Half the price would be great.

Does anyone have experience with how "clean" the AWS IP addresses are? I'd hate to switch to Lightsail and have to deal with deliverability and spam blacklist issues. I've been fortunate to have had zero issues on Linode.

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by blairbeckwith » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 4:59 PM UTC

Really wanted to get more information on this, but all of their Docs links currently 404.

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by 2bluesc » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:00 PM UTC

kohanz wrote: post #6

How much of a threat is this to Digital Ocean, Linode, and others?

Looks like a direct threat to me. I'm sure DO will have better support though, but AWS will have a much more potent upgrade path for start-ups as they mature.

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by yossarianium » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:00 PM UTC

dragthor wrote: post #5

jakozaur wrote: post #2

Just announced on AWS Reinvent Keynote. It's nicely packaged their existing products (EC2, VPC, ...). So you can get Digital Ocean like experience on AWS. You can still tune the underlying services.

Digital Ocean was the first thing that I thought.

I suspect that it may have been the first thing that Amazon was thinking about while building this too ...

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by jqueryin » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:01 PM UTC

My guess is Amazon wants to rope people into their ecosystem, and they've recognized that many startups have opted for the cheaper VPS providers in their bootstrap days.

This is an intriguing move and one that I'm sure DigitalOcean, Linode, and Vultr have been fearing may happen.

The pricing is on par with these alternatives in the VPS space.

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by elevensies » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:02 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #3

Just to be clear: This service is offered by Amazon/AWS themselves, it isn't a third party. That's a question I had when I first clicked, which is why I am answering it here. One big "gotcha" for AWS newbies which I cannot tell if this addresses: Does this set or allow the user to set a cost ceiling? AWS have offered billing alerts since forever. They'll also occasionally refund unexpected expenses (one time thing).…

On the landing page they say there will be overages for excess data transfer. In terms of how it is different, I think a lot of people here have probably been using AWS for 5+ years and the jargon etc. is familiar, and we can calculate the price and understand what it is, but for people who are just getting started this will be a product that is directly comparable to i.e. Digital Ocean and can serve as a gateway drug to AWS.

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by hbosch » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:02 PM UTC

I hate to deviate from the topic, but... is the guy on the front page wearing a red cape?

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by anilshanbhag » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:02 PM UTC

Here is a comparison of $20 instances across DO, Linode and LightSail

All have 3TB transfer

Linode(Best): 4GB RAM, 2 Core, 48 GB SSD

DO: 2GB RAM, 2 Core, 40 GB SSD

LightSail(Worst): 2GB RAM, 1 Core, 40 GB SSD

I use this exact instance on Linode for my site https://dictanote.co; that one extra core makes a lot of difference when you want to take a backup of db or something intensive like that.

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by staked » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:02 PM UTC

This is certainly more in my price range for personal stuff (family sites, etc). Definitely going to take advantage of the free 30 days to kick the tires. Curious to see what sort of server monitoring is included.

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by mark-ruwt » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:02 PM UTC

sheraz wrote: post #4

I have a growing list of cloud / vps providers I like to kick the tires on. I'll be adding this to the list as well.

Our data centers span across Linode, DigitalOcean, and Vultr. Ranking my satisfaction with each, would be in that order, best to worst.