Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by kuschku on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @02:47PM (#13074011)

And DO is already immensely expensive compared to VPS at OVH, or actual dedicated hardware at Hetzner, OVH, Online.net, Scaleways, KimSufi, however they are all called.

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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by voltagex_ on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:13PM (#13075208)

I'm in Australia so I either pay a premium (100x) for an Australian VPS, or deal with 150 (US) to 400ms (EU) latency. I'm "locked out" of Hetzner et al due to that - and yes, I know there's nothing you can do about the speed of light. I just wish Australian/New Zealand/Singaporean/Hong Kong offerings were more competitive (all of those are <200ms)

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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by e2021 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @06:21PM (#13075608)

Digital ocean have servers in Singapore for the same price as all their other ones. The latency from Perth is about 40ms from memory.

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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by voltagex_ on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @06:31PM (#13075675)

167ms from Canberra, on the NBN. Terrible routing though - I wonder what it would have been pre-TPG takeover, though.

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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by snowl on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:46PM (#13075414)

Have you checked out vultr? I host my VPS there with no issues and extremely good ping.

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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by voltagex_ on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @06:35PM (#13075702)

Other comments regarding Vultr's billing in this thread have put me off it completely.

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