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$20 seems a bit expensive considering there are $5 VMs
by rubatuga 6y ago
$20 seems a bit expensive considering there are $5 VMs
- willvarfar 6y agoYes we probably aren't using the cheapest host in the world. It probably wasn't even the cheapest when we chose it. We chose it because I'd used them in my day job and liked their style and support. And the bandwidth throttle rather than quota is really attractive too. And I think that more than half of the monthly cost is actually the amortized domain renewal fees etc, not the vms themselves. So we could probably save a few dollars if we shopped around and moved? But I've just spent more time writing on HN today than I normally spend in a year on thinking about these old servers....
- NicoJuicy 6y agoA domain costs around 13€ / year, not per month :)
- onli 6y agoIt's just a few dollars, but a big percentage. $20 is very expensive for what you have. You could get a $2.50 IPv6 Vultr instance, $3.50 with IPv4. 500GB traffic there. Scaleway also starts in that price range, and if nothing changed includes unlimited traffic. See https://www.scaleway.com/en/virtual-instances/development/ https://www.scaleway.com/en/virtual-instances/development/ and https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/ https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/. The domain will cost likely $1 the month.
- sirn 6y agoSeeing you mentioned Tornado, WordPress not being so attractive, and $20 for a 512MB VPS makes me wonder if this was sometimes around 2010-2012? A lot of comments here seems to mention $5/mo VMs, but if this was around that time period, then I don't think $20 is unreasonable at all! (I used RootBSD back then and they only gave you 256MB for $20 ;-)