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I moved from AWS to DO and find the price performance much better for my WP sites. Whatever you do don't say that DO is better that AWS on HN or you will lose k

I moved from AWS to DO and find the price performance much better for my WP sites. Whatever you do don't say that DO is better that AWS on HN or you will lose karma points from grumpy AWS admins. Of course AWS has better security and many more features but for many uses it's simply too slow and too expensive. Plus when is AWS going to make a GUI for its scaling tools?

erichocean 13y ago
FWIW, one of the startups I'm CTO at is on DO now and looking to move off due to cost. DO is great for ultra cheap servers, but the cost of bigger servers is high (especially for non-dedicated hardware). Bandwidth is also expensive at DO, and I'm a bit concerned about the quality of that bandwidth, too. We're moving to OVH and their "infrastructure" line. We get a true VLAN, and the overall cost is ~1/3 of what DO charges for the same compute, RAM and bandwidth. Plus we get dedicated hardware, and 2x3TB hard drives in addition to the SSDs we're adding ($7/month extra). The plan is to use the hard drives to offload our current usage of S3, which'll save another $100K or so annually. I also suspect OVH has "better" bandwidth than DO—more POPs, backbone providers, etc. I actually really like how they're doing things over their now. In the past, it seemed much more complicated, but their current lineup is substantially easier than AWS to understand and price out. It doesn't seem "gimmicky" at all, at least at the high end.
- kyriakos 13y ago
  cloud hosting is cheaper on smaller capacities/cpu's/ram. but as your demands increase it makes sense from the point of view of costs to go on dedicated hardware.
mark_lee 13y ago
DO do be better than AWS to small scale users
yahelc 13y ago
Assuming you're referring to AWS Auto Scaling, they added a GUI for it back in December: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/12/10/auto-scaling-console/ http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/12/10/auto-sc...
- sparkzilla 13y ago
  Thank you! And thank you Amazon.

erichocean 13y ago

FWIW, one of the startups I'm CTO at is on DO now and looking to move off due to cost. DO is great for ultra cheap servers, but the cost of bigger servers is high (especially for non-dedicated hardware). Bandwidth is also expensive at DO, and I'm a bit concerned about the quality of that bandwidth, too. We're moving to OVH and their "infrastructure" line. We get a true VLAN, and the overall cost is ~1/3 of what DO charges for the same compute, RAM and bandwidth. Plus we get dedicated hardware, and 2x3TB hard drives in addition to the SSDs we're adding ($7/month extra). The plan is to use the hard drives to offload our current usage of S3, which'll save another $100K or so annually. I also suspect OVH has "better" bandwidth than DO—more POPs, backbone providers, etc. I actually really like how they're doing things over their now. In the past, it seemed much more complicated, but their current lineup is substantially easier than AWS to understand and price out. It doesn't seem "gimmicky" at all, at least at the high end.

kyriakos 13y ago
cloud hosting is cheaper on smaller capacities/cpu's/ram. but as your demands increase it makes sense from the point of view of costs to go on dedicated hardware.

mark_lee 13y ago

DO do be better than AWS to small scale users

yahelc 13y ago

Assuming you're referring to AWS Auto Scaling, they added a GUI for it back in December: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/12/10/auto-scaling-console/ http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/12/10/auto-sc...

sparkzilla 13y ago
Thank you! And thank you Amazon.