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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
by anilshanbhag 10y ago
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; 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.
- blinkingled 10y agoYeah the LightSail pricing doesn't look attractive at all. $40 if you need to get 2 cores - and dual core really should help with anything non-trivial.
- anilshanbhag 10y agoI was hoping their pricing is competitive at least if not better given they are so late to this I just need one VPS market.
- jethro_tell 10y agoIsn't that what ec2 was 10 years ago?
- bryanlarsen 10y agoAll low-end VPS offerings use shared cores, so # of cores is a fairly useless comparison unless they also tell you the oversubscription rate or all of your neighbors are idle.
- dotancohen 10y agoI don't know about the others, but on AWS with the T2.* instances it always seems like I've got the server to myself. They are either well provisioned, or well managed. The burstable CPUs are great.
- drewcrawford 10y agoYou do have them to yourself, as long as you don't use them. T2 instances work on a credit system, where you are allocated X credits per minute. If you use less than you're allocated, you will rack up hours of CPU time (there is some cap). You can see the credits in the AWS dashboard. Problem is, that buffer you have is also the delay between when you start doing too much work and when you find out you're doing too much work because the instance isn't responding. And it's the delay between when you fix the problem and your balance goes back to "normal". I recently hosted my personal tree of Fast-Growing-Programming-Language on a T2, and "accidentally" became the #1 google search result for the entire long-tail of every stack trace and every error message. Took me awhile to piece together what was wrong.
- blinkingled 10y agoRight of course - I assumed most all top tier providers are good at managing capacity and you do get the two cores to yourself more or less.
- mappu 10y agoBuyVM offer non-shared cores at a cheaper rate than either Linode or DO. https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices (No affiliation, happy customer with minimal downtime for ~5 years now.)
- ulysses 10y agoTook a look, their terms of service are awful. Here's a few: 3,1,2 - P.O. Boxes and non-residential or mail forwarding addresses are not accepted. 3,3,1 - Clients may not open multiple personal accounts under any circumstance. 3,3,2 - Clients may not give other persons access to their accounts.
- xyzzy123 10y agoRight 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.
- anilshanbhag 10y agoTrue, 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.
- xyzzy123 10y agoAs opposed to AWS and DO which have never had comparable security issues. In this case, "never" is what I'd expect versus "yeah it's been a few months since last serious incident". I wouldn't host an ethereum or bitcoin node on Linode. If I were a PCI auditor I would think pretty hard about compliance on the platform. That said, blog you don't care too much about -- sure!
- mgkimsal 10y agowow... 8 months? Not being able to get in to your servers for days at a time is not "a little exaggerated". It was less than a year ago - 11 months. December in to January, Linode data centers, but especially Atlanta, were heavily attacked. https://blog.linode.com/2016/01/29/christmas-ddos-retrospective/ https://blog.linode.com/2016/01/29/christmas-ddos-retrospect... There was another moderate attack a few months ago. Caused no end of headache for some clients of mine. I like Linode, and have used them for some projects in the past, but there are more options now.
- jethro_tell 10y agoBut they were hacked and didn't tell anyone for 6-8 mo even though they knew. So you don't really know they aren't deeply compromised now? Then the ddoss and offline hosts. it's basically just amateur hour over there.
- RKearney 10y ago
- falcolas 10y agoFWIW, bandwidth overages at Linode and DO are $0.02 per GB, LightSail is $0.09. Ow.
- neves 10y agoYour are not considering the servers location. If you aren't in the USA, and your site isn't resource intensive, how near the server is from your users will make the greatest difference in access speed.
- tomschlick 10y agoYup. More of these providers need to have Central US datacenters instead of on the coasts. Linode's Dallas DC has been pretty good in terms of latency to both coasts.
- eb0la 10y agoThat makes sense to me. Lightsail should be a entry-level product to upsell more AWS stuff.
- old-gregg 10y agoSuch comparisons are nearly meaningless. - What kind of SSD? - What kind of "core"? - How much are you over-provisioned on the physical hardware? People are treating cloud resources like they're commodity, but they are not (cloud service providers make it very hard to compare apples to apples). You can have first-class PCIe SSDs on RAID 10 underneath that virtualized storage, or you can have consumer-grade non-RAIDed SATA, but it's all "40GB SSD" to you, the customer. vCPUs are even worse. Buy a 20-core Xeon box, split it across 60 tenants, each with 2 vCPUs each, or via 40 tenants with 1 vCPU?
- jl6 10y agoLuckily, the prices are low enough that you can just test your workload on each.
- shadowban_me 10y agoLuckily, the infrastructure is so inconsistent, you never know what you're going to get.
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- STRML 10y agoAnd it doesn't look good for any of those. t2 instances notoriously throttle way down to 10% if your workload is too consistent. The full performance is quite good from the 2.40 GHz E2676 v3, but at 10% it's worse than a Raspberry Pi. And this will always hit you at the worst time (when under load). As for the SSDs, they're just GP2 storage, which is an order of magnitude slower than DO and nearly 2 orders of magnitude slower than Joyent Triton. So AWS is providing a seriously inferior product here, but it's under the AWS umbrella and peers with the rest of their services. The question is: will the target market care about any of AWS's other services enough to make the inferior $/perf worthwhile, and will they integrate easily enough for the average developer to use them?
- ausjke 10y agoExactly, Linode still has _much_ better deal. Been using Linode for 10+ years, no reason to jump based on what Lightsail has.
- aioprisan 10y agoExcept they're the only one that's gotten breached a number of times and locked out customers for days and weeks at a time. For me, that's a non-starter, AWS has a much better track record.