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Amazon Lightsail #8

Open cpu opened 7 years ago

cpu commented 7 years ago

Suggested by @ptm2x1NyqFB2RY in https://github.com/jlund/streisand/issues/483

Amazon has introduced new VPS with flat rate pricing. Worth considering as a new provider?

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-the-power-of-aws-the-simplicity-of-a-vps/?sc_ichannel=ha&sc_icampaign=launch_lightsail_consolehome_68576a17_2564&trkCampaign=launch_lightsail_consolehome_68576a17&trk=%20launch_lightsail_consolehome_68576a17_2564

nopdotcom commented 7 years ago

Amazon Lightsail is absolutely worth considering as a new provider, and I have an instance running there using “existing system” deployment. Lightsail is almost usable as-is, except that opening all the ports is a pain.

Reasoning: Regular AWS gives you 1G outbound free, and after that it’s $0.09 per gigabyte. A Lightsail small plan, currently $5/mon, comes with 1T outbound free, and seems to perform about like a t2.micro instance. Having a known, fixed price wins over games with pre-reserved t2.nano instances hoping to make up bandwidth charges.

alex-jitbit commented 4 years ago

Lightsail is a great option, $3.5 a month gets you 1TB of free traffic. Any news?