Am I right in thinking that even 2 TByte/month is fairly low? That's only 6 Mbit/s average (whether that's 6/6 or 3/3 depends on their accounting I suppose).
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, at 08:25 PM, Roman Mamedov wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 21:07:39 +0200 > Markus Koch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Okay, I knew I am not a normal person with over a petabyte a months across > > all my servers but seriously what service can you run on a vps with 15 gigz > > a month? > > Well for example you could run some IRC or IM related service, or > something > else where you don't transfer a lot of stuff from/to the VPS in general. > > However my chief concern with the AWS would be that they don't turn off > your > VPS as soon as you exceed the 15GB, they start *charging* you for the > bandwidth > overage, at pretty exorbitant rates, and then bill directly from your > credit > card (which they require that you leave with them when signing up for > this). > Also I believe there are some limits on the amount of disk access, with > the > same billing policy. Basically the "free" AWS is a minefield, one mistake > and > you can find yourself paying ridiculous amounts for it. > > As for being "on a tight budget", you cannot afford one euro a month[1], > two > euros a month[2], 15 USD per year[3], really? Not to mention getting > 500GB to > 2 TB bandwidth on those, not 15GB. > > The free AWS is the most widespread mistake in choosing "your first VPS" > for > just about any purpose (and as mentioned can be a dangerous one); > probably > because people are generally unaware how cheap the actual proper VPSes > can be. > > [1] https://www.arubacloud.com/ > [2] https://www.ultravps.eu/en/plans/ > [3] http://ramnode.com/vps.php > > -- > With respect, > Roman > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > Email had 1 attachment: > + Attachment1.2 > 1k (application/pgp-signature) _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
