Choice of two VPSs

[ted leslie]

I am always eval'ing this stuff, and I use the cloud a lot.
I was doing the calc. in your case.
Amazon ec2 small linux instance is 1vcpu 1.7GB ram  160gb HD, but slow
network storage.

your vps is 1gb ram, 40gb hd, 1000GB transfer. for the 27$

ec2 with that, if transfer is all outbound is 100$+ / month.
with 200GB outbound its 31$ / month
now with amazon all inbound is free.

If you need more the 200GB and its all outbound then ec2 look less
attractive,
I am sure there will be similarly priced in Canada.

The ram and cpu are going to be preferable on the ec2.
And of course its probably a better vitalization on ec2.

I guess this is the standard health club membership deal, that if the
average customer is using >200GB
a month, its likely going to be a pretty rough (crowded) service. I guess
they can offer that 1TB transfer, because on average the customer is
somewhat <200GB on average.

There are so many other advantages with ec2, RS, or even Azure (which has
pretty good small linux instance deals).

But I am guessing you need >250GB / month trans?

Amazon has a free 1 year .micro instance but it does cycle stealing, and
some times you get none.

I run a decent CMS on azure linux ubuntu server (probably uses more cpu
then your setup), their micro instance appears to be dedicated, and its a
cheap lose leader. I think its about 10$/mon. but its only 700MB ram.
Bandwidth cost would be similar to ec2.

I think you have way better choices if your ok with <200GB outbound / month.

second IP will then usually add you 5$, but do you need it?

-tl






On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am in the process of procuring a VPS instance to run Wordpress and
> CiviCRM for the Internet Society.
>
> After spending a good chunk of time on culling from the crowded hosting
> field it's down to two providers who offer fairly similar services:
> VPS.NET and CirrusTech. Both offer good specs, good prices, support
> Ubuntu and (important to us) have Canadian datacentres.
>
> Does anyone here have experience with either of these companies, positive
> OR negative?
>
> If there is something better than the above in the $28-32/mo range, I'm
> interested. Just be aware that we've already gone through quite a bit to
> get to the above short list, so any new suggestions need to be compelling.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Evan Leibovitch
> Toronto Canada
>
> Em: evan at telly dot org
> Sk: evanleibovitch
> Tw: el56
>
>
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