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I was wondering about renting a virtual server, mainly for hosting a website but perhaps for other things. So I looked at Amazon Elastic computing and from what I can gather, I can have 750 hours a month free for the first year then it's $0.013 per hour.
Presumably 'hours' means the amount of time an instance is in existence. So by my reckoning 750 hours covers one server for a month, and it would be $9 ish per month after that. Data transfer seems limited though - it says "15 GB of bandwidth out aggregated across all AWS services; 1 GB of Regional Data Transfer" - does this mean people can download 15GB/mo from me or 1GB?
However there's also atlantic.net which looks to offer much more for much less. 1TB of transfer for only $0.99/mo. Is that right? Seems bizarrely cheap.
Would these companies deal with an individual or would I need to be a company? The websites all seem to be aimed at large organisations.
Free tier is 'free' for one year, subject to those conditions (small server t3 micro I think)- just setup an AWS account against your credit card - try it and see, get use to the way AWS admin/config works etc.
- no real catches that I found..
I (and a ton of others) can highly recommend DigitalOcean for quick, cheap, fast and reliable VPS servers with a super simple control panel. I use them for hosting a bunch of client sites and also for some personal projects.
Brilliant support docs too, if you don't have much experience with this kind of thing or you need some pointers/help when setting up or managing your server.
https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=e1433a6dcff9
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We run our whole business through Amazon EC2, what a revelation in being able to scale up servers during cheap hours to do our big map rendering work then scale down. Checkpointing a doddle, cloning a doddle, adding extra disk a doddle. Messing about in the free ties at no cost a doddle, and we halved our colocation hosting bill.
Anyone can have an EC2 instance as long as they have a credit card.
I use Bytemark more so for the choice of OS, their really responsive support and Symbiosis which makes managing a server and multiple domains really easy. Having a console shell to do a power reset or fix things when you have royally c*cked things up is great. Oh and a regular monthly price rather than a variable one.
We were at Bytemark on their BigV for a while. Had to leave as they are not ISO9001 which our clients required and also we saved cash going variable with EC2.
BTW region bwidth is on the intra-amazon DC connections. Regions are the geo specific DCs; Eastcoat, Westcoat, EU etc.
re Instance is in "existence"; Yes exactly - So just keep in mind - You pay for what you provision - not necessarily what you use/fill/hammer/does anything useful..
Digital Ocean great for ease of use and documentation.
Ramnode are significantly faster and have provided 100% uptime for the last 11weeks for me which is pretty impressive. Lost 30 seconds of uptime last friday or it would have been 3 months straight.
I use digital ocean for testing and Ramnode for live hosting I care about.