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For me, because once you get beyond the $5 nano/free tier, things get expensive really quick. For example, I run about 10 different sites off one Linode, but o

by ljoshua 11y ago

For me, because once you get beyond the $5 nano/free tier, things get expensive really quick. For example, I run about 10 different sites off one Linode, but only one of them gets any substantial traffic. Still, in order to run that site, which works just fine on a $20/mo 2GB/2core unit on Linode, I'll push out about 150GB in outbound bandwidth a month, and require around 15-20GB in storage. Pricing that out on AWS, ignoring the free tier, I'm looking at at least $40/mo, so double the price. These are hobby sites or side projects, so they are not necessarily mission critical, but it would be sad if they went down. There's a serious benefit to getting a VPS when you're on the low end like that, where power and bandwidth per dollar are greatly maximized.

odonnellryan 11y ago
DO box should give you roughly that.
ryanlol 11y ago
If you're are paying double digits or more for cloud hosting, you'd probably get much better bang for your buck by getting a similarly priced dedicated hosting setup. The main value provided by cloud hosting is easy scalability, not cheap prices.
- jaskerr 11y ago
  Do you have hosts you would suggest? There are so many hosts out there, it's hard to know wheat from chaff (to put it politely).
  - ryanlol 11y ago
    I'd start out by looking at the OVH offerings, Kimsufi (a part of OVH) has dedis starting from $5 a month in both NA and EU. You can get a cheap "High Availability" setup for $10 with servers on two different continents. Oh, and the bandwidth is free. (Although, 100mbit.) You can max that line 24/7 for a month and pay nothing more than $5, on linode that costs twice as much that'd cost $600 just for the bandwidth. If you need something beefier than Kimsufi, OVH also has their mid-range brand soyoustart (https://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ https://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/) with prices starting at $42 that'll just completely destroy any similarly priced cloud offerings. I'm only focusing on OVH here because they're IMO as the biggest provider in this market they're also the safest choice. Leaseweb and Voxility might be worth checking out too. Quick disclaimer: I'm not currently an OVH customer (their DC locations don't fit my use case) nor am I in any way affiliated with them.

by ljoshua 11y ago

odonnellryan 11y ago

DO box should give you roughly that.

ryanlol 11y ago

If you're are paying double digits or more for cloud hosting, you'd probably get much better bang for your buck by getting a similarly priced dedicated hosting setup. The main value provided by cloud hosting is easy scalability, not cheap prices.

jaskerr 11y ago
Do you have hosts you would suggest? There are so many hosts out there, it's hard to know wheat from chaff (to put it politely).
- ryanlol 11y ago
  I'd start out by looking at the OVH offerings, Kimsufi (a part of OVH) has dedis starting from $5 a month in both NA and EU. You can get a cheap "High Availability" setup for $10 with servers on two different continents. Oh, and the bandwidth is free. (Although, 100mbit.) You can max that line 24/7 for a month and pay nothing more than $5, on linode that costs twice as much that'd cost $600 just for the bandwidth. If you need something beefier than Kimsufi, OVH also has their mid-range brand soyoustart (https://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/ https://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/) with prices starting at $42 that'll just completely destroy any similarly priced cloud offerings. I'm only focusing on OVH here because they're IMO as the biggest provider in this market they're also the safest choice. Leaseweb and Voxility might be worth checking out too. Quick disclaimer: I'm not currently an OVH customer (their DC locations don't fit my use case) nor am I in any way affiliated with them.