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How does a Pi compared to the lowest end VPS's out there?
by bluedino 7y ago
How does a Pi compared to the lowest end VPS's out there?
- SanchoPanda 7y agoIll use the cheapest AWS lightsail as the benchmark for a low end VPS, which is 3.50 a month. 512mb of RAM, 1v CPU, 20gb of SSD. Cheapest pi4 is 30$, which gets you 1gb of ram and a quad core ARM v8 at 1.50 ghz. BYO storage, which is not ideal via sd card. In any business purposes comparison, you can push that VPS much much harder then you can the pi. But who cares? the pi is yours, it's right there, and it's awesome to do real computer stuff on it. Or stupid computer stuff, whatever, it's yours, no-one has to know. So much easier too.
- jandrese 7y agoLowest end VPS I know about is $5/month. Which means it costs more than an RPi after 9 months or so (7 months for the RPi, another month for the SD card, and one more month for sundries). Power usage on a RPi is pretty trivial so that probably won't change the equation much. Of course you'll also have to pay for your bandwidth with the RPi solution, but you were doing that anyway. The hosting will have more bandwidth and processing power, but also the possibility of big bills if you get large traffic spikes.