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I would imagine that they are betting that most users will use this to host small static sites with negligible traffic, allowing them to benefit from payed for,
by pervycreeper 12y ago
I would imagine that they are betting that most users will use this to host small static sites with negligible traffic, allowing them to benefit from payed for, but unused resources.
- Someone1234 12y agoIf that's the case then people could just use Amazon's S3. You can get a LOT of static site for 10c/month. More likely scenario is a tiny PHP site with the database hosted elsewhere?
- Karunamon 12y agoS3's the storage - you still have to run an httpd daemon somewhere, and even the smallest, cheapest EC2 instance will run you no less than $14 a month. (Notwithstanding the one-year-only free tier) (Wow, I didn't know you could just serve content straight off the storage. I need to re-examine AWS.. thanks :D)
- derefr 12y agoHeroku? I'm unsure what could fit into one of these VPSes but not a free-tier Heroku instance. (Which you get as many of as you like, mind you.)
- pivo 12y agoLooks like you can host a static web site just using S3: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHosting.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHostin...
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- thinkmassive 12y agoYou can host static sites entirely on S3: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHosting.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHostin...
- hrjet 12y agoNice to know this. One major disadvantage is no https.
- aasarava 12y agoS3 lets you essentially park a domain on a bucket and serve files from the URL, including .html. No additional httpd needed.
- garindra 12y agoEC2's new t2.micro instance is actually $9.50/month https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2014/07/01/introducing-t2-the-new-low-cost-general-purpose-instance-type-for-amazon-ec2/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2014/07/01/introd...
- paimpozhil 12y agoYeah that is much more suited.. all the tiny php can be hosted on this without any SHELL/super user restrictions
- albertoleal 12y agoI can do that on GitHub pages for free...
- pervycreeper 12y agoWhat happens when github arbitrarily decides to take your site down? Edit: nevermind, just saw their TOS
- mahyarm 12y agoCan you expand on how the TOS solves this?
- pervycreeper 12y ago>Can you expand on how the TOS solves this I meant the opposite. They have free reign to censor content.
- mahyarm 12y agoWell something like S3 with $0.10/month seems like a good alternative.