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Whenever I need to host something small and I’m trying to decide between DO and AWS I always ask myself. Would I rather be surprised by the bill or my website c
by chickenpotpie 6y ago
Whenever I need to host something small and I’m trying to decide between DO and AWS I always ask myself. Would I rather be surprised by the bill or my website crashing from too much traffic? I almost always pick DO because I don’t want to mess something up and lose a few hundred dollars.
- jackson1442 6y agoWholeheartedly agree. I think AWS is moving in the right direction with Lightsail[0], which is a service very similar to DO droplets and includes transfer. Nice if you want to use AWS for like one or two other services, but I tend to still go with DO for small things. [0]: https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/ https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/
- XCSme 6y agoThat sounds interesting. By "moving in the right direction" do you mean that it's still in beta or not released yet? Or that it's just the first step of many to come?
- adventured 6y agoLightsail works well now. It's a little over three years old. In the first year or so after it was released, they were notorious for being slow in most regards compared to their peers (it launched using rebranded instances from AWS, and used spinning disks, going up against SSDs their competitors were all using). They've largely caught up on performance with DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr and similar. That said, I've stuck with DigitalOcean even though Lightsail tests fine. I've had a great experience over the years with DO and see no reason to leave.
- XCSme 6y agoI use DO now because I like their interface and that they keep adding new features. Plus in my case I can easily spin-up new servers with their prebuilt images marketplace and cloud-init support. I tried using AWS before, but last time I did their interface was awful and pricing hard to understand/predict.