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I'm not migrating from EC2, this is for a personal pet project where price matters. However, you just proved my point. If a 9 year old CPU performs 10 times be

by cmer 15y ago

I'm not migrating from EC2, this is for a personal pet project where price matters. However, you just proved my point. If a 9 year old CPU performs 10 times better than a m1.small for the same price, something's not right. That said, it's not true to say that an EC2 instance is more reliable than an old dedicated box. We've had countless "degraded node" notifications over the years for our EC2 instances. For example, if a network adapter fails in the physical machine, even if it does not affect your instance, Amazon will shut it down. So in a way, many more things can go wrong.

thunfischbrot 15y ago
At the same time you just pointed to one of the flaws in your argument that EC2 is overpriced: You are comparing two services which are very different. It's even right there in the name: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. EC2 allows for elasticity and scalability and therefore is not very strong in the pet-project market. If you want to talk about a rip-off, compare it with Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine or some other services and identify in your post on which grounds you compare them. A dedicated server has very little in common with an EC2 instance. I bet you could buy a laptop for less than 100 USD, install your LAMP server on it an connect it to any leased line to get superior performance to an EC2 instance. But you lose all the advantages EC2 was created to have.