As a startup, how is this cheaper than the AWS free tier?[1] Once you outgrow the free tier, you'd also outgrow Linode and DigitalOcean.
Of course this depends on the type of startup you are building, a video startup is gonna be crazy expensive on AWS, Non-media heavy SAAS it may not matter.
Of course you can always build on AWS and place a caching layer in front of your bandwidth heavy media using DigitalOcean boxes to save big.
This IS a brilliant idea!!
I'm building a video startup so bandwidth solutions have been on my mind these days.
- 2x 1GB instances (one free, one $10/mo)
- Free ELB to load-balance between them
- Free 1GB Postgres RDS
Then I spend less than a buck or two a month when I spin up a c4.large for a few minutes to compile a new AMI periodically. This would all cost at least 3-4x on something like Linode or Digital Ocean.