Before trolls get inspired let me start with this: EC2 is awesome!
But, wanna know what's also awesome?: Digital Ocean
The reason I switched was two-fold: A) money and B) curiousity.
As part of a very generous special friendship I got a "m1.large" for free. That deal had to come to an end so I had to start paying that myself. It was well over $100 per month. I have about 10 servers running on that machine hovering around 3+Gb of RAM.
So I thought this is an excuse to do some spring cleaning and then switch to this newfangled Digital Ocean which is all SSD drives, got good reviews and has a fixed cost per month. First I decommissioned some servers and some sites that used to have multiple processors were reduced to just a single process. Now I got everything down to a steady 2+Gb.
I decided to splash out a bit and I went for the $40/month option which is 4GB, 2 core, 60GB SSD and 4TB transfer. Setting up all the servers on this new Ubuntu 14.04 was relatively easy (thank you pip freeze and rsync!).
So far, I have to say I'm wildly impressed. The interface is gorgeous. It's easy to do everything. I love that the price is fixed. That suits me more that corporations might care about but I'm just little old me.
If you get inspired to try it out please use my referral code. Then you get $10 free credit: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9c9126b69f33
Comments