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AWS vs. Packet.net – Why We Left AWS

• moondev 10y ago
  packet.net looks interesting. I wish there was a free tier to explore it.
  • rishifromtiingo 10y ago
    Heh - yep. They have the type 0 which is $0.05/hr. It was a gateway drug for me <_<. Type 0 is also where I contain my scrapy farm. I find it works pretty effectively. I'll shoot them a note linking to your comment Also: Thank you for whomever linked to my blog post!
    • zsmith928 10y ago
      So $0.05/hr is pretty cheap, but agreed free trial is better. We made a little page with $25 on it if you'd like to try it out! https://www.packet.net/promo/hacker-news/ https://www.packet.net/promo/hacker-news/
      • moondev 10y ago
        Awesome! Just signed up. Looking forward to kicking the tires.
• eip 10y ago
  Looks like it's 5x the cost of Hetzner for similar hardware. So what is the advantage?
• stephenr 10y ago
  Interesting. Does the elastic ip add on allow for eg an ip "shared" between a couple of LB's using keepalived? It mentions assigning it to a server in the faq, but doesn't specify what that actually does.
• Bombthecat 10y ago
  Too bad it stands no chance. It's either amazon, Google or with a lot of much azure the customer would pick.