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Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by devopsproject » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:08 PM UTC

hbosch wrote: post #17

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

He is a ninja rock star hacker.

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by alyandon » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:08 PM UTC

jjawssd wrote: post #8

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.

What are your thoughts on Vultr?

I maintain VPS across different providers (Linode, DO, vultr, budgetvm, etc) and haven't had any real issues with them. Based on my interactions with their customer support, the level of support you receive is about what you'd should reasonably expect from providers in that price category.

The only real gripe that I have is that they don't statically route the /64 they assign to your VPS so I have to run a ndp proxy daemon.

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by vlucas » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:08 PM UTC

jjawssd wrote: post #8

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.

What are your thoughts on Vultr?

I had both Vultr and RAMNode servers, but shut them both down and moved them to DigitalOcean.

The control panels in Vultr seem like 3rd party reseller ones akin to the cPanel/WHM days. I was not able to upgrade my Vultr VPS to a larger one with a few clicks like I expected to be able to (and am able to on DO and Linode). I guess you are expected to put in a support ticket or something. It felt very much like a basic Xen setup, though they have made recent strides to help with that.

With DigitalOcean, I can upgrade my VPS with a few clicks, and even downgrade them as well if the storage disk is not expanded when you upgrade. I am very impressed with their offerings, and the ease of use of their control panel setup.

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by debt » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:08 PM UTC

i'm still using linode. been using it for 10 years.

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by xyzzy123 » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:08 PM UTC

anilshanbhag wrote: post #18

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.

Right but one of those 3 (linode) has been pretty brutally hacked (a number of times, at the control plane level) while DO & AWS have a different security story.

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by esteer » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:09 PM UTC

I'm a little confused. How is this different from EC2?

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by Veen » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:10 PM UTC

stephanheijl wrote: post #10

I could see the appeal of some of the lower range hardware plans, but especially the higher tiers seem way off in terms of pricing. Can someone clarify why a 2 core/8GB machine costs 80$, where other IaaS providers charge far less for such rigs? (DigitalOcean gets you 4 cores for 80$/m, TransIP gets you 4 cores, 8GB and 300GB SSD for <55$/m...)

Speculation, but DO may be overselling their servers at a higher rate than AWS. I know for a fact that lots of other VPS providers do this.

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by falcolas » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:10 PM UTC

Worth noting: $0.09 per GB for bandwidth overages. So, your $5 server with 1TB out becomes a $95 if you have 2TB out.

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by anilshanbhag » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:11 PM UTC

xyzzy123 wrote: post #45

anilshanbhag wrote: post #18

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.

Right but one of those 3 (linode) has been pretty brutally hacked (a number of times, at the control plane level) while DO & AWS have a different security story.

True, but that is a little exaggerated. Yes, they were hacked in the past (over a year ago); one of their small data centers went down. Their US East center has been solid for the past 8 months that I have been using, no hiccups.

Re: Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

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Post by mark-ruwt » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 5:11 PM UTC

AtheistOfFail wrote: post #26

mark-ruwt wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I have to say I have lost all faith in Linode when our hosts keep getting "restarted in the same state" when they have hardware failure yet they just do a hard reboot.

Sadly, I'm used to that on all three at this point. In order of most frequent "Surprise! Node Reboot!" emails from most frequent to least, it's been Vultr, Linode, DigitalOcean, for me.

(for anyone curious, it's ~50 servers across 8 different data centers, roughly equally distributed)