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> On 29 Mar 2017, at 06:43, Arthur Țițeică <arthur@×××××××××××××.ro> wrote: |
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>> €5 a month seems an ideal price, but I can probably afford a little |
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>> more. |
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> Dedibox/Online has real hardware (dedicated servers) for 15 or 30€ on the personal range. The more expensive one has 2 SSDs for software raid 6 cores Xeon and 32gb memory. |
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Not sure why I'd need a dedicated hardware. |
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I think I'd probably rather have two VMs at €5 or €10 each a month, than one high-powered machine at the same price. |
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It would be handy to have another shell I can run back up to, run unattended downloads on and so forth when I'm on a flakey connection (and then pop the download into my Google Drive). |
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PS: can anyone explain how the Amazon web services work, please? I have the impression they're charged by usage and can be very cheap. But it's not clear to me if you can use AWS just like a regular Linux cloud server. |