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I did a quick comparison with DigitalOcean, and it looks like equal (obviously, with more features). What's cheaper cloud hosting than DO (that's not crap)?
by routelastresort 11y ago
I did a quick comparison with DigitalOcean, and it looks like equal (obviously, with more features). What's cheaper cloud hosting than DO (that's not crap)?
- grubles 11y agoVultr: https://www.vultr.com/pricing/ https://www.vultr.com/pricing/
- portalplatform 11y agoThe big difference is that with Portal you can run 8 x 128 MB (or 4 x 256 MB) VMs within a single 1 GB memory plan. Running each of your apps in a separate VM on a standard VPS would cost a lot more.
- wmf 11y agoThis sounds like a case for containers, does it not?
- portalplatform 11y agoYes, we initially used containers. We think VMs are a more secure form of isolation, which is arguable. We also want users to have the ability to run apps based on a variety of operating systems and kernels. Portal apps themselves can use containers of course. For example, a game server app might run each game process in a separate container within its own VM.