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Sigh. Heh, I completely forgot Amazon sold everything. I thought this was about AWS. If only something AWS- and Australia- related could bring "excitement, dre
by exikyut 9y ago
Sigh. Heh, I completely forgot Amazon sold everything. I thought this was about AWS.
If only something AWS- and Australia- related could bring "excitement, dread and defiance." That would be absolutely absolutely wonderful; getting any sort of hosting or VPS-type service here is nothing short of insane.
For example the only $20/mo offers I'm aware of only offer like 256MB RAM for example. And there is a VERY low bandwidth cap, with extra bandwidth starting at "eye-watering" and skyrocketing to "...wat." pretty quickly.
- aluskuiuc 9y agoIs Amazon Lightsail in Sydney what you're looking for?
- danmaz74 9y agoAre you limited by ping times? I'm from Europe, but before switching to Hetzner bare metal machines, I always used VPS from the US...
- ianhowson 9y agoLatency is a problem -- typically 180ms to US-west and a little more to EU. Singapore is 100ms-ish and a good option if AU is too expensive. Laws and/or customer requirement often require that data be kept onshore, of course.
- danmaz74 9y ago> Laws and/or customer requirement often require that data be kept onshore, of course. Ah, I see. That's of course an important point.
- NathanOsullivan 9y agoI'm not sure where you are looking but there are Australian VPS providers with comparable pricing to overseas vendors. A$20 will get you 2GB memory easily enough.