On Saturday, 19 August 2017 03:13:05 BST Stroller wrote: > > On 18 Aug 2017, at 13:28, Todd Goodman <t...@bonedaddy.net> wrote:
> > You'll need to look into the free tier to be sure. You can always set > > alerts to email you if you're getting close to getting charged. > Thanks for your help. > > Looks like the free tier is a bit skinny on storage - only 5GB. > > Linode's pricing pitch, "simple pricing, no calculator needed", puts > Amazon's rates to shame. > > Stroller. I'm going back a couple of years when I used to calculate the cost of AWS for work purposes. The break even time of the cheapest AWS combo Vs self-hosting of a LAMP was around 2.4 years. Now, the self-hosting was a really old and underutilised leased corporate data centre at rather expensive prices. In most cases the report that went back to the Board said: re-negotiate and extend the lease of the corporate data centre for software or storage you intend running in the long run. If you want to test some web app, then by all means use AWS, *until* you have negotiated a better self-hosting deal. BTW, the elastic AWS deal was almost always prohibitively expensive. The above calculations refer to prepaying AWS for the utilisation required plus some margin to achieve the cheapest possible deal. I appreciate that multi-year corporate deals enjoy better discounts by suppliers than you or I walking through the door, so YMMV. For my current low demand needs, if I could have fibre to the premises where I live, I would consider hosting at home and would look for a friend to provide a hot standby and off premises back up. -- Regards, Mick
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