Re:Amazon Lightsail 1GB Is No Match for $10 VPS from Linode, DO
by devoply on Thursday December 15, 2016 @12:47AM
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Sort of stupid to price it out there like that then. To me it just seems a cheap way to mess with the lowend market. Try to get some of those people using AWS, so you can hook them into your expensive offerings.
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Re:Amazon Lightsail 1GB Is No Match for $10 VPS from Linode, DO
by trome on Thursday December 15, 2016 @04:28AM
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Eh, Lightsail is very stingy compared to competitors in the lowend market, and the CPUs & SSD space don't linearly scale which will deter many who forsee the need to scale their container as their needs grow.
lowendtalk.com can show ya what Lightsail is competing against, IMO more BW, SSD Space and less aggressive throttling are needed if they are to compete with even the higher end of that market, it comes off as a stingier knockoff of Digital Ocean & Linode.
Re:Amazon Lightsail 1GB Is No Match for $10 VPS from Linode, DO
by divbit on Thursday December 15, 2016 @01:22AM
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It could alternatively be framed that it benefits users who could learn some AWS through using their low-end stuff. (I guess AWS skills are probably desirable in the job market).
The obvious followup question: is lightsail the same interface / setup as normal AWS so that this would indeed work? or is it some sort of vastly simplified separate thing?
Re:Amazon Lightsail 1GB Is No Match for $10 VPS from Linode, DO
by balls187 on Thursday December 15, 2016 @01:46AM
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Lightsail does require having an AWS account, and I do believe you still have to go through the same setup (verification, sign up with a credit card). But the interface to create machines is vastly simplified.
You choose either the base OS, or an app stack (like Nodejs, or LAMP), then the price you want to pay, then name the machine.