[AusNOG] Seeking VM for external access

[Shane Short]

That sounds like a bit of a dismissive reply-- especially given quite a 
few of his points are quite valid (IPv6 being one of them). Just because 
a single AWS instance is free, it doesn't make it better.. and if you 
can't stomach $5/m for a VM.. :)

I'd also rather buy a small VM than accept a free one, especially for 
something that you'll depend on heavily when it's actually required.

Daniel: Reading between the lines of your original post, I'm guessing 
you were crippled during the vocus blips yesterday. For $dayjob we 
leverage a few small VPS machines for our Secondary/Tertiary DNS 
servers, which I'd suggest you do, too.

As long as your DNS stays up, you'll handle little blips much more 
gracefully.

Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> Good information though Alastair!
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> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Alastair Waddell 
> <awaddell at legion.com.au <mailto:awaddell at legion.com.au>> wrote:
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>     On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:30 PM, Skeeve Stevens
>     <skeeve+ausnog at theispguy.com <mailto:skeeve+ausnog at theispguy.com>>
>     wrote:
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>         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)/
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>     *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.
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>     Regards,
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>     Alastair
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>         On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:18 PM, <daniel at glovine.com.au
>         <mailto:daniel at glovine.com.au>> wrote:
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>             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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