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They say on the FAQ: >For every Lightsail plan you use, we charge you the fixed hourly price, up to the maximum monthly plan cost. Wording implies the monthly
by creullin 10y ago
They say on the FAQ:
>For every Lightsail plan you use, we charge you the fixed hourly price, up to the maximum monthly plan cost.
Wording implies the monthly pricing is a 'maximum' price.
- fabian2k 10y agoTraffic is the big item that can add additional charges: > Data transfer overages above the free allowance are charged at $0.09/GB. On the $5 instance the second TB (at $90) is 18 times as expensive as the instance itself with the first TB included.
- bendbro 10y agoI'm pretty sure AWS only charges on traffic out. Edit: just did some research, there are many cases this isn't true
- creullin 10y agoI get that, but that's after the first TB. For a $5 VPS I'd expect most customers wouldn't go over that.
- Someone1234 10y agoI'd agree. But it would be nice to have an option in the account settings so you literally cannot accidentally spend $90 on a $5 account.
- user5994461 10y agoIt's not expected... until your site get unexpectedly featured on HN, reddit or any news site.
- kuschku 10y agoWow. That traffic is almost 50 times more expensive than at hosters of dedicated servers, or when you buy it directly from Tier 1 or Tier 2 networks. Hetzner charges 1.36€ per Terabyte of traffic, and with most servers, gives you 10-20TB included. I’ve heard people talk about the ridiculous traffic costs of AWS, but this is an entirely new dimension of expensive.
- fabian2k 10y agoYou get 30 TB traffic inclusive with the smallest Hetzner server that has ECC (4 core Xeon with 64GB RAM). And that is for ~70 EUR per month + setup fee. That amount of traffic is more than 2000 EUR per month at AWS. Of course this is comparing entirely different things, but still, if you have significant traffic and can't avoid it with a CDN or something like that, AWS (as well as Google and Microsoft clouds) get seriously expensive.
- falcolas 10y agoIt's not; there are additional possible outbound bandwidth overage costs, and they are not insignificant.
- Someone1234 10y agoThat's just referring to the VPS itself. If you keep reading the FAQ you'll see that there are ways to exceed that amount. Plus there's nothing stopping someone breaking into your account and upgrading it in all kinds of evil ways (which has been a huge hassle with AWS tokens being stolen from e.g. Github).
- abraae 10y agoReally? What are these evil ways?
- jajern 10y agoNot OP, but I've heard of people getting hijacked and finding a bunch of VPSs spun up sending out spam and other malware related stuff. Maybe that's what they mean.
- shawabawa3 10y agoThere were lots of stories of hackers spinning up the largest ec2 instances available to mine bitcoins on anyone's account they could get access to