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Because DO has their $5 and $10 / month plan, and that's really enough for me.

freehunter 7y ago
That's exactly it for me too. The Hetzner plan costs about twice as much as my monthly DO bill. Not to mention I'm US based and all of my customers are US based so hosting a site in Germany or Finland doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
- phoobahr 7y ago
  And here I am a Canadian and my client base is Canadian. While not a problem just yet it is likely that PIPEDA/PHIPA would make it complicated to serve data from outside the country. I am not a lawyer but the advice I have been given is murky. It’s much easier to stuck with DO which, at my usage, costs about the same number of $CAD as lightsail would in $USD
- karussell 7y ago
  Since a year you can use their cloud product: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud https://www.hetzner.com/cloud starting at 2.5€ There are lots of "managed" features still missing but acceptable for a still young product.
phonon 7y ago
https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/?opdp1=pricing https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/?opdp1=pricing ?
- metildaa 7y ago
  The CPU allocations on Lightsail are anemic compared to DO.
  - phonon 7y ago
    Are they? They come out fairly comparably here. I think Lightsail is a T3 instance "under the hood". https://joshtronic.com/2019/06/03/vps-showdown-digitalocean-lightsail-linode-upcloud-vultr/ https://joshtronic.com/2019/06/03/vps-showdown-digitalocean-...
    - metildaa 7y ago
      Notice the memory and file I/O, huge gulfs in performance. The focus of my comment though was about Amazon's restrictive leaky bucket CPU allocation scheme, you can burn through your allocation of high cpu use and then get throttled to 5% of peak use iirc for hours while this bucket refills. DO lets you use much more CPU comparatively.
      - phonon 7y ago
        True. For intermittent (less than 10% high CPU usage per period) use though, it's equivalent, and comes with other advantages.
- adolph 7y ago
  Nice, use Docker containers in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z525kfneC6E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z525kfneC6E
- geezerjay 7y ago
  AWS Lightsail charges $3.50/month for a vm with 512MB RAM. Hetzer charges €3.00/month for avm with 2GB RAM.

That's exactly it for me too. The Hetzner plan costs about twice as much as my monthly DO bill. Not to mention I'm US based and all of my customers are US based so hosting a site in Germany or Finland doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

phoobahr 7y ago
And here I am a Canadian and my client base is Canadian. While not a problem just yet it is likely that PIPEDA/PHIPA would make it complicated to serve data from outside the country. I am not a lawyer but the advice I have been given is murky. It’s much easier to stuck with DO which, at my usage, costs about the same number of $CAD as lightsail would in $USD
karussell 7y ago
Since a year you can use their cloud product: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud https://www.hetzner.com/cloud starting at 2.5€ There are lots of "managed" features still missing but acceptable for a still young product.

phonon 7y ago

https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/?opdp1=pricing https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/?opdp1=pricing ?

metildaa 7y ago
The CPU allocations on Lightsail are anemic compared to DO.
- phonon 7y ago
  Are they? They come out fairly comparably here. I think Lightsail is a T3 instance "under the hood". https://joshtronic.com/2019/06/03/vps-showdown-digitalocean-lightsail-linode-upcloud-vultr/ https://joshtronic.com/2019/06/03/vps-showdown-digitalocean-...
  - metildaa 7y ago
    Notice the memory and file I/O, huge gulfs in performance. The focus of my comment though was about Amazon's restrictive leaky bucket CPU allocation scheme, you can burn through your allocation of high cpu use and then get throttled to 5% of peak use iirc for hours while this bucket refills. DO lets you use much more CPU comparatively.
    - phonon 7y ago
      True. For intermittent (less than 10% high CPU usage per period) use though, it's equivalent, and comes with other advantages.
adolph 7y ago
Nice, use Docker containers in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z525kfneC6E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z525kfneC6E
geezerjay 7y ago
AWS Lightsail charges $3.50/month for a vm with 512MB RAM. Hetzer charges €3.00/month for avm with 2GB RAM.