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Yes but try running a couple of servers with a decent amount of ram say 4GB and we’d notice how the cost goes exponential. Point being running a couple of se
by lewisjoe 5y ago
Yes but try running a couple of servers with a decent amount of ram say 4GB and we’d notice how the cost goes exponential.
Point being running a couple of servers with a decent ram and a decent amount of storage shouldn’t cost 50$. It should be say, 7$. I know the ask is too much. Just want to see if there’d be any fundamental tech breakthrough to make something like this happen.
- BenjiWiebe 5y agoA Linode VPS with 4GB RAM costs $20/month, 4 times more then the 1GB instance. Dedicated VM is $30/month for 4GB, but that's the smallest so can't compare there. But that's only a little bit more than the shared vps, so I'd consider it pretty reasonable. A few years ago I couldn't find a $5/month option. The cheapest Linode was $10/month. EDIT checked Wayback Machine...10 years ago, a 512MB RAM Linode cost $19.95/month.
- wongarsu 5y agoHetzner cloud has nodes with 4GB RAM for $5.70. For $40 you get a dedicated server 64GB RAM and 2 512GB SSDs and 1 Gbit/s unmetered uplink. Servers are incredibly affordable. AWS isn't because they don't have to be (giving startups $100k credits and coaching them on how to achieve the strongest lock-in works well for them)