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I think a million VPS hosting companies just cried out in terror. The major reason to use a VPS host instead of AWS is that AWS is complicated. This seems to b
by Veen 10y ago
I think a million VPS hosting companies just cried out in terror.
The major reason to use a VPS host instead of AWS is that AWS is complicated. This seems to be just as simple as DO or a million other VPS hosts, with the added benefit that it's easy to hook up to Amazon's other services if you need to.
- regularfry 10y agoSmaller hosts will make a decent margin on managed services. That's just not a game Amazon want to get into.
- ghaff 10y agoThere's a lot of managed services on AWS and it's growing rapidly. But they're delivered through partners, not AWS directly. I didn't write down the numbers from this segment of the Re:Invent Global Partner keynote yesterday but, as I recall, "next generation managed service providers" was highlighted as a big growth opportunity.
- antisthenes 10y agoI think the point was that Amazon's customer service is awful, compared to smaller, much more nimble companies where you can get a technical person on the line and get much more personalized service from someone in the US.
- kuschku 10y ago> The major reason to use a VPS host instead of AWS is that AWS is complicated. The major reason to use a VPS host instead of AWS is the order of magnitude price difference. That’s not going away with LightSail either. Look at all the French/German/Dutch hosters, they’re 10-20 times cheaper than AWS, and you get far better storage performance and cheaper traffic.
- dx034 10y agoUntil their clients see the iops of Lightsail's non-local SSDs. Don't know of any other VPS provider that uses network as their only storage. Small boxes will likely not run a memory-only job (they only have 1GB), so I doubt that Lightsail will be used for much more than reverse-proxying traffic from AWS to get huge discounts there.