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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by tylerjd on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @04:23PM (#13074813)
Yes, when I was still in high school, I had set up a Munin graphing node on AWS. Well, what I didn't realize at the time was that Munin likes to use a lot of disk IO every time it writes out the graphs. AWS charges for I/O on their SAN (not on local disks, but the free tier doesn't come with local disks), and so I ended up with a $150 bill and only use them now for Route53 (DNS hosting, it is fantastic for that), and S3/Glacier for archival storage.

It is worth trying if just to gain knowledge on AWS. But for hosting, I'd say DigitalOcean

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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by mnordhoff on Thursday December 01, 2016 @02:39AM (#13077885)
The newer EBS types don't charge per I/O operation. (Provisioned IOPS types charge for the speed you theoretically can do, but don't charge for the ops you do do.)

https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/previous-generation/

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