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Yeah 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.
by blinkingled 10y ago
Yeah 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.