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If you are not looking for an exotic instance type or instance type flexibility Vultr provides superior servers at every comparable EC2 price point. Additionall
by 2RTZZSro 8y ago
If you are not looking for an exotic instance type or instance type flexibility Vultr provides superior servers at every comparable EC2 price point. Additionally Vultr provides an extensible external hard drive so-called "block storage" for a very low rate. Digital Ocean is great as well. Keep your eyes peeled for deals on https://lowendbox.com/ https://lowendbox.com/
I have nothing to do with any of these services
- cyberferret 8y agoI do use Digital Ocean for some projects, and have been looking at Vultr recently as well. However, most of my projects are reliant on the entire AWS suite, and nearly all my projects use RDS for database storage and SES for handling emails etc., not to mention DynamoDB, S3, VPC, Elastic Beanstalk, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline etc. etc. which makes it easier to stay with the one provider and choose their cheapest instances to do the heavy lifting.
- StudentStuff 8y agoMaybe I'm just an oddball, but I've found significant use in setting up shared infrastructure including a mailserver, gitlab, VPN server and similar, with things like CodeDeploy replaced by a simple & reliable git hook. Whenever I look at the AWS ecosystem, I see confusing and unclear documentation combined with pricing models that ensure there are many different ways my credit card could end up with significant surprise charges, and a vendor that has repeatedly shipped me broken & fake items in the past. What is the incentive to use AWS?
- rtisdale 8y agoI agree that AWS pricing and documentation can be incredibly obtuse in some cases and that it's often overkill for small personal projects. Vultr and Digital Ocean are incredibly competitive from a performance per dollar perspective, while still offering a high level of flexibility. With that said, AWS does offer some features that don't have any equivalent open source solutions (at least that I'm aware of). The most apparent example of this that is commonly used are Autoscaling Groups, something that is difficult to replicate on Digital Ocean or Vultr unless you intend to write custom code (I believe Openstack or Cloudstack may offer something similar but that's a whole other bag of worms) Cloudwatch is also an incredibly powerful solution for correlating logs and metrics that can be difficult to replicate without rolling your own solution, which can become quite complex (generally combining something such as Prometheus + ELK + Grafana). In short, AWS allows you to utilize some incredibly powerful tools without nearly as much management overhead as rolling your own solution. This is the area where I think AWS excels.
- somecallitblues 8y agoI would add route 53, S3 and easy of setting up security groups as killer features. Plus the ability to take a snapshot and boot an instance from it, awesome API, elastic IPs and reliability. I’ve had 8 instances across 3 data centres, for 5 years, with a single hardware failure where I’ve had to take action. Their shit just works.
- grey-area 8y agoDO has most of that I think - DNS, Object Storage, reuse snapshots, API, floating IPs, load balancers, reliability on par with AWS, and simpler pricing, but no auto-scaling that I'm aware of.
- 2RTZZSro 8y ago100% agreed. The main issue here is COST. It is incredibly difficult to predict the COST of all these services on AWS and this can lead to some pretty insane bills as the little things add up quickly.
- Something1234 8y agoDo you have any tricks for making rds really cheap?
- cyberferret 8y agoWe pre-purchase the instance, and we also have one large instance, which is shared amongst about 9 different projects to save costs.