Comments on: Web host comparison http://arencambre.com/blog/2008/04/09/web-host-comparison/ Technology, politics, and stuff Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:00:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Aren Cambre http://arencambre.com/blog/2008/04/09/web-host-comparison/comment-page-1/#comment-32635 Aren Cambre Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:24:23 +0000 http://arencambre.com/blog/?p=385#comment-32635 I found that my EC2 usage would cost less than $80/month. Given the promised disk space, RAM, and CPU, it was a better deal than most virtual hosting I found. However, your linode.com VPS is very reasonably priced. I may investigate that. I found that my EC2 usage would cost less than $80/month. Given the promised disk space, RAM, and CPU, it was a better deal than most virtual hosting I found. However, your linode.com VPS is very reasonably priced. I may investigate that.

]]> By: Eli http://arencambre.com/blog/2008/04/09/web-host-comparison/comment-page-1/#comment-32390 Eli Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:20:06 +0000 http://arencambre.com/blog/?p=385#comment-32390 Regarding Amazon's EC2; that isn't the solution you're looking for. The idea there is to fully use a machines resources for a short duration. Which is the inverse of what you need for a webserver. You rent the machine on a per-hour basis, and they round up partial hours to a full hour. IIRC, the low-end is $0.15/hr, so if you wanted to rent a machine 24x7, you would be looking at $100/month. I'm using a linode.com VPS for retracile.net, on the Linode360 package. The Linode540 has the RAM you're looking for, and is $30/mo. I haven't been using the service long enough to speak authoritatively on performance issues. Say, where's the comment preview?? Regarding Amazon’s EC2; that isn’t the solution you’re looking for. The idea there is to fully use a machines resources for a short duration. Which is the inverse of what you need for a webserver. You rent the machine on a per-hour basis, and they round up partial hours to a full hour. IIRC, the low-end is $0.15/hr, so if you wanted to rent a machine 24×7, you would be looking at $100/month.

I’m using a linode.com VPS for retracile.net, on the Linode360 package. The Linode540 has the RAM you’re looking for, and is $30/mo. I haven’t been using the service long enough to speak authoritatively on performance issues.

Say, where’s the comment preview??

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