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Because DO has their $5 and $10 / month plan, and that's really enough for me.

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https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/?opdp1=pricing ?

Nice, use Docker containers in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z525kfneC6E

AWS Lightsail charges $3.50/month for a vm with 512MB RAM.

Hetzer charges €3.00/month for avm with 2GB RAM.

The CPU allocations on Lightsail are anemic compared to DO.

Are they? They come out fairly comparably here. I think Lightsail is a T3 instance "under the hood".

https://joshtronic.com/2019/06/03/vps-showdown-digitalocean-...

Notice the memory and file I/O, huge gulfs in performance. The focus of my comment though was about Amazon's restrictive leaky bucket CPU allocation scheme, you can burn through your allocation of high cpu use and then get throttled to 5% of peak use iirc for hours while this bucket refills. DO lets you use much more CPU comparatively.

True. For intermittent (less than 10% high CPU usage per period) use though, it's equivalent, and comes with other advantages.

That's exactly it for me too. The Hetzner plan costs about twice as much as my monthly DO bill. Not to mention I'm US based and all of my customers are US based so hosting a site in Germany or Finland doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Since a year you can use their cloud product: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud starting at 2.5€

There are lots of "managed" features still missing but acceptable for a still young product.

And here I am a Canadian and my client base is Canadian. While not a problem just yet it is likely that PIPEDA/PHIPA would make it complicated to serve data from outside the country.

I am not a lawyer but the advice I have been given is murky. It’s much easier to stuck with DO which, at my usage, costs about the same number of $CAD as lightsail would in $USD

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