[H-GEN] How do these compare to our latest hosting provider?

[Greg Black]

On 5 December 2016 at 14:16, Russell Stuart <russell-humbug at stuart.id.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-12-05 at 01:49 +0000, Greg.Lehmann at csiro.au wrote:
>> http://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-lightsail-the-private-server-killer/
>
> We pay $20/yr, the cheapest of those is $60/yr.
>
> The prices are identical to those provided by DigitalOcean, our
> previous hosting provider.  I'd still take DigialOcean right now as
> they have a POP in Singapore, which is damned fast.  Lightsail only
> have POP's in the US right now.

I'd agree with Russell. And I'd also point out that Amazon are
currently only offering two OS options: Amazon Linux (whatever
that is) and Ubuntu 16.04.

Digital Ocean, Linode, etc., all offer a much wider set of operating
systems and releases, so that's another reason not to get excited
by Lightsail (yet, anyway).