<div dir="auto">I'm using the AWS lightsail instances for running a bunch of small servers. They cost between USD 3.50 for a very small instance (512Mb) all the way up to about USD 160 for a 32Gb one. A 4Gb instance is USD 20 per month.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There's a few extra costs if you want a fixed IP and DNS hosting etc, but it's pretty competitive.<br><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Euan.</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 6 Jan 2024, 11:59 Russell Coker via linux-aus, <<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">What are good options for cheap VMs in Australia? A friend needs something <br>
small like 4G of RAM and 20G of storage for commercial use running a LAMP <br>
stack. The code to run is all PHP so ARM is fine.<br>
<br>
I've had years of good experience with Linode (particularly since they <br>
switched to SSD storage) and they have a DC in Sydney, $24/month for a VM with <br>
4G of RAM and 80G of storage.<br>
<br>
AWS is known to be solid, for reserved instances paid up front for a year a <br>
t4g.medium (ARM VM with 4G of RAM) costs $218 per annum plus $19.20 per month <br>
for storage. AWS also has extra costs for IOPS to EBS storage and for data <br>
transfer. So seems likely to be more expensive than a straight $24/month fee <br>
from Linode.<br>
<br>
The Oracle Cloud has all this under the "Free tier". But it likes to stop <br>
free tier VMs that it conmsiders "unused" (inbound ssh connections multiple <br>
times a day and ongoing jabber communication counts as "unused") once a year <br>
and the management interface is one of the most painful things I've <br>
encountered. It's the first time I had to document how to login to a service.<br>
<br>
Anything else to consider?<br>
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