By the way, have you looked at DigitalOcean, Linode and Lightsail? They have locations in Canada, I think all the same price for 2GB. Linode and DO have good support, with a slight edge to Linode I

price and don't have the network capacity that Amazon has. Amazon rarely if ever has DDoS issues. I still see it with most of my other providers from time to time. They have automated mitigation bu

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Sure you can mimic google and amazon's marketing strategy of giving away shit tons too, but those are multibillion dollar companies, giving away a few million in trial credits aint gonna dent their op

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When that happens on a Google Cloud Compute instance it automatically reboots onto different hardware, unless you opt-out of that feature. You are still booting from the same virtual boot disk and yo

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Vultr/DO/Linode boot from local storage. So it's an apples and oranges comparison. You can add block storage to those services but you cannot boot from block storage and/or completely forgo local st

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offer block storage at the same price as Amazon. I guess if you're really focused on bandwidth, Lightsail is significantly chaper but otherwise it's pretty plain jane.

It's still not clear to me if I can resell Lightsail or not. I looked at other providers and LightSail still comes out much cheaper as a true block storage cloud VPS. Most others cost at least twice

like I would have to for Lightsail. I'm sure Amazon will get over it but they did a good job scaring away my business.

Ceph servers so I'm looking for something like Lightsail where that is all done for you. DigitalOcean and Vult boot from local storage so they are not viable options.

Anyone here doing it? Do I need a special account and qualifications/approvals or anything?

https://www.modulesgarden.com/products/whmcs/amazon-lightsail

Plivo, Twilio, MSG91, Amazon SNS, and Nexmo are better options. Also, if you're looking to integrate it with WHMCS you can grab SMS Manager

* If you verify strictly, you will end up similar to Amazon and won't be cheap.

I want to help people open stores on Amazon, eBay, shify, shopify and other websites. Then I help them purchase and ship goods in China.

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