Hopefully this won't be taken as an anti-MS rant. I've been developing exclusively on Microsoft's platforms for over 20 years.<p>But, if developing and hosting in a cloud environment doesn't convince you to go Linux, nothing will.<p>While for the most part as far as feature parity and development tools, AWS treats Windows developers like first class citizens. The "Windows Tax" is clear in AWS when you can see the cost difference between running the same instance size with Linux as Windows.<p>Even worse, realistically, running any Windows instance with less than 8GB of RAM is painful. Your minimum cost is $70 a month.<p>Being in the Windows world so long, I was amazed when I started using AWS and found how much you could do with relatively few resources in the Linux world.<p>I never cared before, I was using other people's money.<p>But I'm not leaving .Net Core, its made transistioning to Linux hosted development less painful.<p><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-update-more-instance-sizes-and-price-reductions/" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-update-mor...</a>
I would suggest adding Scaleway[0] to the list. I've used their server a bit and it worked well. I know them because of their parent company (Online) which I've been a custom for quite a few years now.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow">https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/</a>
This is probably based on the new T3 release. <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/aws-announces-availability-of-t3-instances-for-amazon-ec2-2018-08-21" rel="nofollow">https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/aws-announces-avai...</a><p>I'm guessing they're able to do burstable offerings with better baseline and burst at a lower cost than before.
On the far low end, BuyVM has a $15/year plan (1 core, 128M ram, 15G disk, 500G bandwidth).<p>Has been working well so far (a few years), though haven't really been close to any resource limits (yet).
great news, I love spinning up Lightsail instances for new projects!! my current running instances are not updated, I suppose I have to recreate them then..<p>Edit:
It seems they have added new instance types. My current instances are now 3.50$<p><a href="https://snag.gy/3Q1fL0.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://snag.gy/3Q1fL0.jpg</a>
One quick question about LightSail Load Balancers: Is the outbound traffic from the Load Balancer to the Internet is charged separately or it is taken from the instances quota?<p>Scanned through the FAQ but couldn't find a clear answer.
Wouldn't use Digital Ocean for shit, there are multiple stories of users were they cancelled accounts (actual production systems) because of sustained use or bogus DMCA claims.
Kimsufi has dedicated servers starting at 5$ per month. Yes, it's an atom, but it's yours alone, and is going to beat these on performance, memory and riskspace.
Meh. Look at the bandwidth pricing. If bandwidth is the Soda. DO is coke and lights sail is McDonald’s selling coke. You can get it direct at wholesale or buy it in a bottle for 5x more.
DO and Linode are very expensive compared to OVH, Scaleway or Hetzner. So this reads as "Lightsail announces 50% price drop, will still be very expensive"<p>(From another comment: <a href="https://snag.gy/3Q1fL0.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://snag.gy/3Q1fL0.jpg</a>) -> $3.50 for 512 MB of RAM is a fucking rip-off compared to this: <a href="https://www.scaleway.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.scaleway.com/</a>