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Will the bandwidth not cost way higher on AWS than the $15 mentioned?
by brainless 15y ago
Will the bandwidth not cost way higher on AWS than the $15 mentioned?
- EwanToo 15y agoMmm, your right it'll cost something, though AWS free tier covers 15GB per month of bandwidth, then 12 cents per GB after that, so I'd expect it to be a few $. Obviously though, there's cheaper options than AWS out there - Linode include 200GB of transfer per month in their $20 option. I mostly just used AWS because I could start the server, build it, and blow it away, then restart, all without any hassles or full monthly chargers.
- imperialWicket 15y agoIf you are going to host it for a long duration, you can reserve a heavy utilization micro instance and end up with an instance cost of less than $6.50 per month (with a three year reserved instance). As long as you aren't serving lots of images, this will keep you well below $20/month - even with large amounts of traffic. If you are serving lots of images, or worried about excessive bandwidth: Linode gives you 20GB/200GB (storage/bandwidth) on a 512MB server for $20, and MediaTemple gives you a 512MB server with 20GB/350GB for $30 (a little cheaper if you are going to be in the 300GB range when you consider Linodes .10/GB for overages).