[TriLUG] Any recommendations for cheap "cloud" hosting?

Tue Jun 20 16:10:09 EDT 2017

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On a side note I just got an email for digital oceans upcoming object
storage and requested early access. This is what I would use aws or google
storage hosting for. Static site locations.

On Jun 20, 2017 2:00 PM, "Aaron Joyner via TriLUG" <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> I realize I'll sound like a company shill, but http://cloud.google.com is
> both a very-cheap and super-flexible option.  :)  For me, it's what I've
> wanted but couldn't have until very recently: the ability to run my
> public-facing toy projects on the amazing infrastructure I spend all day
> building and scaling.
>
> For comparison to some of the other options on this thread, a small (512MB
> of ram) VPS (virtual private server), similar to what you get from Digital
> Ocean, runs about $3.88 per month
> <https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=18ad3b20-
> f512-494e-bf95-965aea396277>.
> It's billed per-minute, so if you decide you don't like it after the first
> week of tinkering with it, you've only spent $1.28
> <https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=b1edcb7a-
> 9359-4d62-aebc-eeb935f479b6>.
> In fact, if you just want to get started tinkering with it, and you only
> need one of those, it's actually free <https://cloud.google.com/free/>.
>
> The part I love is that if you decide next week you need to upgrade that
> virtual machine to have 4 CPUs, 15GB of RAM, add a 100TB of SSD storage,
> it's no big deal.  It takes about 5 minutes of clicking around in the web
> UI, or a few commands.  The billing rate goes up, but it's really easy to
> just "throw resources at the problem" if that's the right short-term answer
> for scaling.  If you want to scale it out horizontally, and put it a few
> dozen or hundred of these instances behind a globally load balanced
> address, that's really just a few more clicks in the web UI.  That might
> seem gratuitous and unnecessary, but starting with a cheap toy-sized
> server, and then upgrading it in place to a 1- or 2-CPU machine with a
> couple GBs of ram only when the workload actually warrants it, has turned
> out to be a very sensible model.
>
> As a caveat... if you're shoveling around tremendous amounts of bandwidth,
> and you can live with their serving locations, you're probably better off
> with Digital Ocean (because they don't meter it, yet).  If you want to
> develop on ARM, check out Scaleway.  AWS also offers a "free tier" instance
> for the first 12 months.
>
> Best of luck investigating,
> Aaron S. Joyner
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Warren Myers via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org
> > wrote:
>
> > I use Digital Ocean.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Mike Shaw via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > >
> > > I was looking at playing around with my own "cloud" host versus one at
> > home
> > > and wanted to see if anyone has any recommendations for cheap online
> > > hosting just for playing?
> > >
> > > I had found this site(http://www.97cents.net/) but wanted to see if
> > anyone
> > > had any thoughts.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Mike Shaw
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