Although my main instance is on Digital Ocean, I have a test/play instance on AWS. This is really hip & cool: it is an AWS Graviton 2 instance (Amazon's own ARM64 CPU, much like Apple Silicon) [ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/ ]. I run a small t4g.micro instance, 1GB RAM, 8GB Disk. Last bill was just USD 2.89 which is crazy cheap for a full month 24/7. Thanks to the fact that Pharo has a full JIT VM on ARM64, this is crazy fast as well. I am sure that the reason this is so cheap is the fact that it is super efficient. You can try this easily for yourself.
On 13 Apr 2021, at 01:57, Esteban Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com> wrote:
What do you use that's so cheap/affordable?
El lun., 12 de abril de 2021 04:48, Norbert Hartl <norbert@hartl.name> escribió:
Am 12.04.2021 um 04:02 schrieb Jeff Gray <jeff@rogerthedog.com>:
Considering easiest and cheapest, there's always self hosting, or are you discounting that idea? Most geeks have a bit of spare hardware laying around and broadband up-speeds aren't too bad. I'm guessing that if we are in the $5 a month ball park then we aren't needing a guaranteed up time.
My cloud instance is 3â¬/month. With an additional 20% amount the instance has a backup. And setting it up is way simpler then getting dynamic DNS updates and all of that configured. Times have changed a bit.
Norbert