Re: Cheap VMs in Australia

Euan de Kock via linux-aus <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.australia
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I'm using the AWS lightsail instances for running a bunch of small servers.
They cost between USD 3.50 for a very small instance (512Mb) all the way up
to about USD 160 for a 32Gb one. A 4Gb instance is USD 20 per month.

There's a few extra costs if you want a fixed IP and DNS hosting etc, but
it's pretty competitive.

Regards,

Euan.

On Sat, 6 Jan 2024, 11:59 Russell Coker via linux-aus, <
[email protected]> wrote:

> What are good options for cheap VMs in Australia?  A friend needs
> something
> small like 4G of RAM and 20G of storage for commercial use running a LAMP
> stack.  The code to run is all PHP so ARM is fine.
>
> I've had years of good experience with Linode (particularly since they
> switched to SSD storage) and they have a DC in Sydney, $24/month for a VM
> with
> 4G of RAM and 80G of storage.
>
> AWS is known to be solid, for reserved instances paid up front for a year
> a
> t4g.medium (ARM VM with 4G of RAM) costs $218 per annum plus $19.20 per
> month
> for storage.  AWS also has extra costs for IOPS to EBS storage and for
> data
> transfer.  So seems likely to be more expensive than a straight $24/month
> fee
> from Linode.
>
> The Oracle Cloud has all this under the "Free tier".  But it likes to stop
> free tier VMs that it conmsiders "unused" (inbound ssh connections
> multiple
> times a day and ongoing jabber communication counts as "unused") once a
> year
> and the management interface is one of the most painful things I've
> encountered.  It's the first time I had to document how to login to a
> service.
>
> Anything else to consider?
>
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