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One benefit of AWS lightsail is you don't need to worry about them going out of business or being acquired. I ran into that problem to many times on what I thought were solid LEB hosts, and I have d

former is definitely true if you blindly go with Amazon, the latter really isn't in most cases.

Yes, that. A crappy underperforming product people will buy just with a single goal to cover their own ass and not "get fired" -- an excellent image for Amazon. And never mind that t

In an ideal world, yes. In practice, "nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM" applies to Amazon too.

host?" "In the cloud -> Amazon".

My bosses are in bed with Microsoft and it's Azure all the way for us but while it got problems it isn't as bad as Amazon & Google.

And Amazon has more than 3 people working for them when problems arise. For some people low cpu usage is fine for development, prototypes, and initial implementation along with high revenue low use c

Technical perspective is not that powerful in decision making. Boss will choose household brand name. And Amazon is always trusted by non technical managers.

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It's not like you should expect any hidden limits to be declared upfront, what matters is that with Amazon you get the entire integrated infrastructure built from ground up.

I wonder if someone here has experienced Lightsail and willing to do benchmarks with some famous VPS providers like Kimsufi, OVH etc.

with the available tools in the market now days (Amazon S3 for storage/Amazon RDS/Failover IPs/DNS/etc) it was possible to do a high availability with cpanel at a cost that didn't require breaking th

If you plan to encode videos then using an online service (IAAS based) would yield the best cost effective solution. Examples of online based video transcoders are Amazon ElasticTranscoder , NeuCoderm

Their AWS is essentially a VPS or at least you can run it as one. They have also recently announced Lightsail:

Thanks for these. Currentyl I am signed to Oneprovider with the Onecloud Server. Does Amazon also have VPS Server?

If with amazon - make life simple use RDS for the database and check the high availability box - it will automatically make replicas that it can failover to and it would be in different region etc. G

to store all the content in an S3 container (ie. Amazon S3); and if so have all 3 servers attach to that container to have the exact same contents (no live syncing required if this works). Then use

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