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AWS starts at around $60 a month, a basic VPS (Rackspace, Linode etc) starts at around $10 a month. With the VPS, you wouldn't have to spend time turning it of
by justinsb 17y ago
AWS starts at around $60 a month, a basic VPS (Rackspace, Linode etc) starts at around $10 a month. With the VPS, you wouldn't have to spend time turning it off and on to save pennies, and you wouldn't have to learn all the EC2 oddities (Elastic IP, EBS, Ephemeral Storage, AMIs, Availability Zones, KeyPairs, etc).
For someone looking to get started, a normal VPS seems easier and cheaper.
- drewcrawford 17y agoRackspace bought slicehost who charges $20/month. Linode's lowest VPS is $20/mo: https://www.linode.com/signup/ https://www.linode.com/signup/ Am I missing something? I'd love to find a decent VPS provider at $10/month.
- cmelbye 17y agoRackspace Cloud is probably what he's referring to. Smallest instance is ~$10, no bandwidth included though.
- turtle4 17y agoNo, grandparent poster was off on pricing, but his intent is correct. AWS is several times more expensive than the other 'lighter' VPS solutions out there, which is why is isn't brought up/suggested more often.
- justinsb 17y agoThanks, I was a little off on pricing - I didn't realize Linode started at $20. Rackspace is $11 / month for the 256MB slice, no bandwidth, though there's no bandwidth included in EC2 so that's apples-to-apples. I doubt bandwidth costs would be that significant for the OP's purpose. Looks like prgmr also has cheaper entry points, including some bandwidth.
- e1ven 17y agoI'd only recommend it for test projects, but RapidXen is $6 per month. The quality is about what you'd expect.