Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by olegkikin on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @03:17PM (#13074308)

I don't really care. My $6/month deal beats any $5/month deal from the major players, and by a huge margin. I recently tested the internet speed on it, and I got 850 real Mbps out of the promised 1Gbps channel, which is good enough for me. I can give Memcached 1GB of RAM and not worry about killing everything else.

I have a bunch of sites running on it without stepping on each other, and I doubt that would be the case on AWS / Google / DO.

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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by imdsm on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @04:40PM (#13074957)

You're telling me that your 150GB HDD beats a 20GB SSD? Even though they're both going to sit at 10GB free for years.

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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by olegkikin on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:07PM (#13075165)

All the critical things should sit in RAM anyway. The SSD will beat the HDD if you read/write to disk heavily. But not if you need space.

If I need an SSD, there are options too, though DigitalOcean is indeed one of the best if you need a cheap US-based server. If the location doesn't matter, EU, Russia, Ukraine have some great deals.

Example: $4.6/month = 40GB SSD, 1GB RAM, 3 cores, unlimited traffic @200Mbps.

https://firstbyte.ru/vps-vds/kvm-ssd/

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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by smarx007 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:22PM (#13075267)

He is free to use his server how he sees fit. And are you really sure that Amazon is going after a very different market with their 5$/mo. offer than a low-cost VPS provider?

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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by deelowe on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:40PM (#13075376)

I think comparing a (NVMe?) SSD solution to a HDD one shows the OPs ignorance of the differing market segments each is going after. They aren't comparable solutions.

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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by olegkikin on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:58PM (#13075478)

WTF? I never did anything with wordpress plugins in my life. And even if I did, so what? You have some elitism / insecurity issues.

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