I find this really interesting. On one hand EC2 performance sucks to the bottom if you are running on the t1.micro instance (I have tried above medium once and

I find this really interesting. On one hand EC2 performance sucks to the bottom if you are running on the t1.micro instance (I have tried above medium once and it wasn't much better either). DO (https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://www.digitalocean.com/) really catches my eyes. The whole "SSD", "512MB" at $5 per month is a bargain. If you are running low traffic website (assuming you will not post your article on HN yourself), $5 per month is absolutely enough for personal blog. If you run a Persona IdB that way, it's only $60 + $50 (an IO domain can be as cheap as that plus tax on gandi, which comes with 1 year of SSL/TLS cert). I really wonder how much profit they can make out of this kind of bargain. 1. maintenance cost is high 2. staff cost is high 3. disk failure is frequent 4. power usage is high