[AusNOG] Seeking VM for external access

[Skeeve Stevens]

Good information though Alastair!


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On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Alastair Waddell <awaddell at legion.com.au>
wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:30 PM, Skeeve Stevens <
> skeeve+ausnog at theispguy.com> wrote:
>
> AWS? Don't get much cheaper.... actually you get a free micro VM for a
>> year when you sign up.... just setup another account if you've already done
>> it.
>>
> *1 instance free for 12 months if you qualify (don’t have another instance
> including in another account)*
>
> *DigitalOcean is less than a third the price of an AWS micro instance -
> it’s US5/mth*
>
> And they’ll give you a bonus $5 or something for signing up which you can
> then make last practically for ever if you use it as expressed (as needed).
> Vagrant supports DigitalOcean as a provisioner.
>
> And *they support IPv6 all the way down* (currently SNG and one of the US
> locations) - which none of AWS (except on ELB), Google (hypocrites!) etc do.
>
> They have solid venture backing - they’re not going away.
>
> AWS is expensive in relative terms (it’s the criticism that remains when
> all others have been squelched). What about your EBS storage charges etc.
>
> DigitalOcean is a viable alternative where the additional AWS services
> aren’t needed or where people prefer to roll-their-own as many do on AWS
> anyway (HAProxy, RDBMS etc). Cloudflare offers a great service for free to
> replace Cloudfront and DigitalOcean has a private network albeit that it’s
> shared with all customers but then AWS best practice says to use TLS across
> your VPC anyway so…
>
> I think DigitalOcean will be lapped up in places where people value every
> cent they spend and therefore, it will end up being a serious alternative
> to AWS (try telling a Chinese they should spend 200% more (and some!)
> because the private network is not shared or because the RDBMS can be
> ‘as-a-service).
>
> Apologies that this doesn’t actually have anything to do with Sydney-IX
> Megaport - we appear to have forked.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alastair
>
>
>
>>
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>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:18 PM, <daniel at glovine.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear List
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If anybody whom are on Sydney-IX Megaport whom are able to offer me a
>>> low spec Virtual server,  not on Vocus networks,  could you please contact
>>> me ASAP
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Daniel
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> Alastair Waddell
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>
> Australia
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