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“exuberant”? I think “exorbitant” makes more sense in this context. Edit: Unless you were really really happy about what you paid, I guess.
by davidrupp 7y ago
“exuberant”? I think “exorbitant” makes more sense in this context. Edit: Unless you were really really happy about what you paid, I guess.
- sdan 7y agoYeah, exorbitant. Didn't like paying $300 a year just to run some simple websites/databases
- ekvilibrist 7y agoEC2 instances?
- ak217 7y ago$300 a year is nothing compared to colocating your own server, or even getting a business-grade network connection. If you can get away with hosting on your own computer on a residential connection, that's great for you, but it's a totally different product from what AWS/GCP/colocation offer. By the way, reserved instance pricing on AWS and GCP starts around $20/year. But if you know how to use S3/GS and Dynamo/Datastore, you don't even have to use an instance.
- sdan 7y agoCan you point me towards getting an AWS/GCP instance for around $20/year? Is it AWS or GCP? Also what type of instance? What are the specs? At the moment I just use EC2 and GCP instances (and a couple of GCS buckets)
- ak217 7y agoSure - on AWS, it's the 3 year reserved term for a t3.nano ($51 for 3 years or $27 for 1 year for 512 MB RAM and burstable CPU as described here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/burstable-credits-baseline-concepts.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/burstabl...). https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricin... On Google, the comparable offering is an f1-micro instance, which goes for $3.88/month (https://cloud.google.com/compute/vm-instance-pricing#pricing https://cloud.google.com/compute/vm-instance-pricing#pricing).
- dang 7y agoOk, I edited the GP for you.