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Amazon Lightsail halving most of its pricing.

ehhthingehhthing Member
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https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/

It looks like most of the pricing for lightsail has been cut in half (other than the 512mb plan, which has been reduced to $3.5 a month).

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  • JohnMiller92JohnMiller92 Member
    edited August 2018

    Interesting tbh. Out of curiosity how do they handle ddos attacks? I read that all AWS services come with AWS shield (free version), but since you have to link your card, you could still be billed for overage?

    edit: That new pricing is enticing! However, I feel like the 2 core one is a bit too much. Wish it started at 10 or 15

  • HarambeHarambe Member, Host Rep

    Daddy like. Especially now that most AWS credits include lightsail usage.

  • sibapersibaper Member

    fuk, with that many location. I'll having fun ;)

    thanks for letting us now OP

  • ivanhivanh Member
    edited August 2018

    Anyone know how lightsail VMs compare to Vultr's? Specifically in Sydney.

  • GravelyGravely Member
    edited August 2018

    Bench.sh Sydney 1GB for people interested

    CPU model            : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2676 v3 @ 2.40GHz
Number of cores      : 1
CPU frequency        : 2400.026 MHz
Total size of Disk   : 39.0 GB (0.8 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem  : 990 MB (46 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 0 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime        : 0 days, 0 hour 3 min
Load average         : 0.03, 0.09, 0.04
OS                   : Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Arch                 : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel               : 4.4.0-1052-aws
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I/O speed(1st run)   : 67.8 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run)   : 64.4 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run)   : 64.3 MB/s
Average I/O speed    : 65.5 MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Node Name                       IPv4 address            Download Speed
CacheFly                        205.234.175.175         8.73MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP               106.187.96.148          2.15MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG           139.162.23.4            1.29MB/s
Linode, London, UK              176.58.107.39           1.38MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE           139.162.130.8           861KB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA             50.116.14.9             1.68MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX           173.192.68.18           4.14MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA          67.228.112.250          3.86MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE        159.122.69.4            1.12MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG        119.81.28.170           2.94MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN         119.81.130.170          2.75MB/s
  • peixotormspeixotorms Member

    And here's Singapore:

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
CPU model            : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2676 v3 @ 2.40GHz
Number of cores      : 1
CPU frequency        : 2400.076 MHz
Total size of Disk   : 20.0 GB (1.1 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem  : 486 MB (52 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 0 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime        : 0 days, 0 hour 54 min
Load average         : 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
OS                   : Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Arch                 : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel               : 4.4.0-1052-aws
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I/O speed(1st run)   : 67.9 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run)   : 64.2 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run)   : 64.2 MB/s
Average I/O speed    : 65.4 MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Node Name                       IPv4 address            Download Speed
CacheFly                        205.234.175.175         4.78MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP               106.187.96.148          5.46MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG           139.162.23.4            57.4MB/s
Linode, London, UK              176.58.107.39           1.68MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE           139.162.130.8           1.88MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA             50.116.14.9             2.83MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX           173.192.68.18           2.19MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA          67.228.112.250          3.48MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE        159.122.69.4            2.03MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG        119.81.28.170           57.0MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN         119.81.130.170          15.9MB/s
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  • HarambeHarambe Member, Host Rep

    Anyone know if the I/O caps go up with the plan size? Guess I should just spin up a bigger one to find out.

  • MikeAMikeA Member, Patron Provider
    edited August 2018

    Kind of surprising for Amazon, OVH's Singapore servers get better speeds to literally every location in bench.sh. Maybe Lightsail has limits that AWS doesn't.

  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran
    edited August 2018

    MikeA said: Maybe Lightsail has limits

    It doesn't have any IPv6, for example. No wonder they need to slash prices on this outdated trash.

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  • NanoG6NanoG6 Member

    So what's the advantage over OVH SG for example? Other than brand image?

  • sibapersibaper Member

    @NanoG6 said:
    So what's the advantage over OVH SG for example? Other than brand image?

    location

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  • realbusinessrealbusiness Member

    Why is the SSD so slow with Lightsail?

    It's now at the same price as Vultr and Linode for $20 plan, but I am not sure about the performance.

  • ehabehab Member

    is this kvm? can one mount iso etc ...?

  • elliotwilliamselliotwilliams Member

    @ehab said:
    is this kvm? can one mount iso etc ...?

    Fat hope. They are using xen. But even then everything is controller. Impossible.

  • elliotwilliamselliotwilliams Member

    @realbusiness said:
    Why is the SSD so slow with Lightsail?

    It's now at the same price as Vultr and Linode for $20 plan, but I am not sure about the performance.

    I've been using them on and off. They are pretty ok. But the bandwidth limit and price is nerve wrecking.

    Nothing to stop competitors blasting out your bandwidth

  • HukinHukin Member
    edited August 2018

    rm_ said: It doesn't have any IPv6, for example. No wonder they need to slash prices on this outdated trash.

    Who really cares about no IPv6? IPv4 enough for everything and not limited.

    If they add PayPal payments will be a real powerful competitor to Vultr and DO like providers

  • TomTom Member

    Hukin said: Who really cares about no IPv6?

    Alot of people.

    Hukin said: If they add PayPal payments

    Probably unlikely - If I'm not mistaken it runs off the AWS billing system?

  • vovlervovler Member
    edited August 2018

    @MikeA said:
    Kind of surprising for Amazon, OVH's Singapore servers get better speeds to literally every location in bench.sh. Maybe Lightsail has limits that AWS OVH doesn't.

    Corrected ;)

  • MikeAMikeA Member, Patron Provider
    edited August 2018

    @vovler said:

    @MikeA said:
    Kind of surprising for Amazon, OVH's Singapore servers get better speeds to literally every location in bench.sh. Maybe Lightsail has limits that AWS OVH doesn't.

    Corrected ;)

    no, I was talking about AWS, because who would use expensive AWS if it only got 10Mbit worldwide?

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  • JohnMiller92JohnMiller92 Member
    edited August 2018

    My woothosting yearly VPS has faster disk speeds :joy:

    Hell, my Gullo's $4/yr nat is over 8-9 times faster :O

  • opsflopsopsflops Member

    @JohnMiller92 said:
    My woothosting yearly VPS has faster disk speeds :joy:

    Hell, my Gullo's $4/yr nat is over 8-9 times faster :O

    Shit I never noticed that, those are supposedly SSDs? ~67MB/s? Load of old mullock if you ask me.

  • vovlervovler Member

    @JohnMiller92 said:
    My woothosting yearly VPS has faster disk speeds :joy:

    Hell, my Gullo's $4/yr nat is over 8-9 times faster :O

    I guess people running on Amazon's Lightsail are not idling 24/7.

  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran

    vovler said: I guess people running on Amazon's Lightsail are not idling 24/7.

    I don't think it's that slow from load, more like it's capped to provide mediocre medium but very stable performance for everyone.

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  • cyberpersonscyberpersons Member

    @vovler said:

    @JohnMiller92 said:
    My woothosting yearly VPS has faster disk speeds :joy:

    Hell, my Gullo's $4/yr nat is over 8-9 times faster :O

    I guess people running on Amazon's Lightsail are not idling 24/7.

    Looks capped, I am getting similar performance on 2GB Singapore.

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  • sinsin Member

    @rm_ said:

    MikeA said: Maybe Lightsail has limits

    It doesn't have any IPv6, for example. No wonder they need to slash prices on this outdated trash.

    Yeah I just took a look at their forums and people are complaining about shit like their Apple apps getting denied because they don't support IPv6. I was going to try them out again but without IPv6 support, forget it.

  • szarkaszarka Member

    @rm_ said:
    It doesn't have any IPv6, for example. No wonder they need to slash prices on this outdated trash.

    Ugh. Thanks for reminding me why I'm not using AWS. I got all excited for a few seconds.

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  • wgetwget Member

    @rm_ said:

    MikeA said: Maybe Lightsail has limits

    It doesn't have any IPv6, for example. No wonder they need to slash prices on this outdated trash.

    That is why they call it Lightsail, something like a cost-reduction plan.

  • HukinHukin Member

    Can anyone beat that set of locations in one place, almost everywhere in World. Less resources meant slashes, so better don't expect 1Gbps port at all.

  • angstromangstrom Moderator

    The price really isn't bad for AWS, even given the restrictions.

    Does anyone know which OS templates are available on this plan? It's not obvious from the info provided.

  • FalzoFalzo Member

    @angstrom said:
    The price really isn't bad for AWS, even given the restrictions.

    Does anyone know which OS templates are available on this plan? It's not obvious from the info provided.

    for windows it's 2012R2 and 2016 and they have a bunch of premade bitnami stack templates:

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