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  1. Jamie101 Ireland

    Jamie101 Well-Known Member

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    Came across a few people lately mentioning that they are using Amazon S3 and so on to host their sites (both static sites and more complex ones). Never noticed too many people on here mention it though, anyone use it?

    The cost of a VPS is killing me at this stage since I'm not making much money online right now since I'm busy in college.

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    Looks like nobody does then. For some reason it seems like American developers love it for hosting but very few people I know use it.

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    First of mate, if you're on a budget I highly highly highly highly super highly recommend http://www.digitalocean.com/

    Yes I have used Amazon hosting before but you still need to know what you're doing it's not all automatic CPanel and that crap.. :) Effectively it's "cloud" hosting where in you can spawn instances of many different images and you can effectively use a mix of Amazon services together.

    More information here:

    https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

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    Thanks Dave. Looked in to digital ocean before and thought it seemed a bit complicated but must put more time into it once college is finished.

    Seems really cheap so I need to figure it out.

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    I'll help you out mate digital ocean is so quick and easy they have tons of articles to help you out too. $5 a month you can run a basic/small site off if you know what you're doing. :)

    Send me a PM with what you want setup I'll help you. In exchange for a certain LLL.co.uk I'll be your slave and build you what you want... haha. :) Just kidding of course.
     
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    512MB will barely run cPanel. 1GB is better taking you to $10 + the license costs. Then support is self-serve/community based...

    So I guess it depends how you value your time. It can be cheap, it's certainly easy. But how much is your time worth when it can take you 1-2 hours reading articles to try something or spending 5 minutes submitting a ticket and having a support team take care of it?

    DO is certainly cheap (they are currently operating at loss - look at how much money they burn). But cheap isn't always better.
     
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