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If you don't care about reliability, why not just get a cheap and powerful VPS? Paying $90/month for that machine is madness. I pay $6/month for 6GB RAM, 4 core

If you don't care about reliability, why not just get a cheap and powerful VPS? Paying $90/month for that machine is madness. I pay $6/month for 6GB RAM, 4 cores, 50GB disk.

yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago
Perhaps integration with other AWS services?
- mayank 9y ago
  AWS Lightsail is AWS’s option there.
blibble 9y ago
where are you getting that for $6?
- amq 9y ago
  Not quite $6, but close: https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/
  - nik736 9y ago
    If you don't need any connection scaleway is a good option, since they tend to absolutely not care about their network quality and reliability at all.
- olegkikin 9y ago
  Hostus.us The deal was found on LowEndBox, not sure if it's still available, but there are many other ones.
deivid 9y ago
Where? I'm using Digital Ocean and it'd be way more expensive for that kind of configuration.
- sacheendra 9y ago
  Digital Ocean is still a premium provider. I would look at providers like OVH and even cheaper (Treudler, TransIP, RamNode, etc.) For example, an SSD with 2 vCPUs, 8GB RAM and 40GB SSD is 13.49$ per month from OVH.
- kuschku 9y ago
  Here’s a list of providers by cost: https://git.io/vps https://git.io/vps (PS: Don’t use DigitalOcean, they tend to steal your credit if they feel like it. Lost 100 bucks "promotional credit" that way with only a few days notice)
  - dewey 9y ago
    They expired some credits that I haven't used but after asking they just restored them and I could use them. Asking helps.
    - kuschku 9y ago
      Asking is not a solution. This is a question of trust. I have to trust that DO will keep my data safe, that, if the US government would be after my data, DO would prevent them from accessing it. I have to trust that DO won’t access my data. How am I supposed to trust my, and my user’s personally identifying data, to a company that just like that revokes credit, without warning, and says "well, if you ask nicely, you can get it back"?
      - Johnny555 9y ago
        Billing practices and data privacy seem like completely different subjects and I'd be surprised if there's much correlation between the two.
        kuschku 9y ago
        Why? You’d trust all your private data, and your customers data, to a company that just tried to scam you out of money if you hadn’t been careful? (Maybe "scam" is a strong word, but the result is the same – changing the ToS to revoke credit with only a weeks warning certainly is shady) I’m sorry, but I can’t trust such a company.
dagw 9y ago
If you don't care about reliability, why not just get a cheap and powerful VPS? Personally, because my needs aren't constant. I might need two cores for two months followed by 100 cores for a week.

If you don't care about reliability, why not just get a cheap and powerful VPS? Paying $90/month for that machine is madness. I pay $6/month for 6GB RAM, 4 cores, 50GB disk.

yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago

Perhaps integration with other AWS services?

mayank 9y ago
AWS Lightsail is AWS’s option there.

blibble 9y ago

where are you getting that for $6?

amq 9y ago
Not quite $6, but close: https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/
- nik736 9y ago
  If you don't need any connection scaleway is a good option, since they tend to absolutely not care about their network quality and reliability at all.
olegkikin 9y ago
Hostus.us The deal was found on LowEndBox, not sure if it's still available, but there are many other ones.

deivid 9y ago

Where? I'm using Digital Ocean and it'd be way more expensive for that kind of configuration.

sacheendra 9y ago
Digital Ocean is still a premium provider. I would look at providers like OVH and even cheaper (Treudler, TransIP, RamNode, etc.) For example, an SSD with 2 vCPUs, 8GB RAM and 40GB SSD is 13.49$ per month from OVH.
kuschku 9y ago
Here’s a list of providers by cost: https://git.io/vps https://git.io/vps (PS: Don’t use DigitalOcean, they tend to steal your credit if they feel like it. Lost 100 bucks "promotional credit" that way with only a few days notice)
- dewey 9y ago
  They expired some credits that I haven't used but after asking they just restored them and I could use them. Asking helps.
  - kuschku 9y ago
    Asking is not a solution. This is a question of trust. I have to trust that DO will keep my data safe, that, if the US government would be after my data, DO would prevent them from accessing it. I have to trust that DO won’t access my data. How am I supposed to trust my, and my user’s personally identifying data, to a company that just like that revokes credit, without warning, and says "well, if you ask nicely, you can get it back"?
    - Johnny555 9y ago
      Billing practices and data privacy seem like completely different subjects and I'd be surprised if there's much correlation between the two.
      - kuschku 9y ago
        Why? You’d trust all your private data, and your customers data, to a company that just tried to scam you out of money if you hadn’t been careful? (Maybe "scam" is a strong word, but the result is the same – changing the ToS to revoke credit with only a weeks warning certainly is shady) I’m sorry, but I can’t trust such a company.

dagw 9y ago

If you don't care about reliability, why not just get a cheap and powerful VPS? Personally, because my needs aren't constant. I might need two cores for two months followed by 100 cores for a week.