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The HFT Guy has a good blog and did some posts on this. Basically Google Cloud is much cheaper than AWS so you should look at that. There are also other alterna

by rb808 9y ago

The HFT Guy has a good blog and did some posts on this. Basically Google Cloud is much cheaper than AWS so you should look at that. There are also other alternatives including IBM SoftLayer which I've never looked at before. "Run an entire tech company in the cloud, or run only a single [big] project requiring more than 10 servers? Google Compute Engine Run less than 10 servers, for as little cost as possible? Digital Ocean Run only beefy servers ( > 100GB RAM) or have special hardware requirements? IBM SoftLayer or OVH" https://thehftguy.com/2016/06/08/choosing-a-cloud-provider-amazon-aws-ec2-vs-google-compute-engine-vs-microsoft-azure-vs-ibm-softlayer-vs-linode-vs-digitalocean-vs-ovh-vs-hertzner/ https://thehftguy.com/2016/06/08/choosing-a-cloud-provider-a... https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-than-aws/ https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-...

mottomotto 9y ago
I like his summary however, on the low end, I found OVH is more affordable than DigitalOcean depending on your needs. Digital Ocean is $20/month for 2 GB of RAM while OVH is $28/month for 7 GB with roughly similar specs for the rest (SSD, etc). Note that OVH also offers VPS SSD with 8 GB for $13.50/month however it doesn't automatically renew (at least in Canadian region) so you have to manually pay your bill each month. The $28/month option is under their public cloud offering and supposedly does auto renew. You can also scale up memory at OVH without scaling up the rest of the server. So you can get to 15 GB of RAM for $34/month (at Digital Ocean, that is closer to $120/month or $160/month with much better specs for rest of server). But if all you need is more RAM... Digital Ocean is a lot more user-friendly though than OVH. If you need good support, DO is probably a better bet.
- kawera 9y ago
  On the low end, Linode is also an option: 2GB/$10.
  - a012 9y ago
    Don't forget Vultr
usgroup 9y ago
Cutting out idle time is where you'll make the saving. So use lambada and emr where appropriate. Use spot by default.

by rb808 9y ago

mottomotto 9y ago

I like his summary however, on the low end, I found OVH is more affordable than DigitalOcean depending on your needs. Digital Ocean is $20/month for 2 GB of RAM while OVH is $28/month for 7 GB with roughly similar specs for the rest (SSD, etc). Note that OVH also offers VPS SSD with 8 GB for $13.50/month however it doesn't automatically renew (at least in Canadian region) so you have to manually pay your bill each month. The $28/month option is under their public cloud offering and supposedly does auto renew. You can also scale up memory at OVH without scaling up the rest of the server. So you can get to 15 GB of RAM for $34/month (at Digital Ocean, that is closer to $120/month or $160/month with much better specs for rest of server). But if all you need is more RAM... Digital Ocean is a lot more user-friendly though than OVH. If you need good support, DO is probably a better bet.

kawera 9y ago
On the low end, Linode is also an option: 2GB/$10.
- a012 9y ago
  Don't forget Vultr

usgroup 9y ago

Cutting out idle time is where you'll make the saving. So use lambada and emr where appropriate. Use spot by default.