Hi Andrew, A server hosted on Amazon EC2 can cost significantly lesser than the $1500 you've arrived at.
For example, around 4 servers I manage costs us around ~350AU$ a year. (You can use this page to estimate the cost. http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html) In addition to that Amazon now has introduced a new product called Lightsail for requirements such as yours. (See https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/) Then there is of-course Linode, Digital Ocean, Vultr ... -Manoj.C On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 12:19 AM, Andrew McGlashan via luv-main < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guys/Gals, > > As I understand it, if you want to host an AWS EC2 server, you need to > pay a "region" price for access to a region; it is my belief that it > costs roughly $1500 per month, not sure if that is already in AUD or not. > > Then, you pay per hour for the running machine and you pay again (even > if only a little) for storage. > > To me, self-hosting a mail server makes much more sense; so, why would > it make sense to set one up as an AWS EC2 instance? Have I got the > figures wrong? Is that region charge an every month "once off" and then > you can have as many servers there as you like? Even if you pay for > every server by the hour plus other costs? > > I know they [AWS] have an offer of 1 year free, but that translates to > me as a fremium product; you'll pay through the nose after 12 months if > you continue to require the service. > > The only other alternative to self hosting is a VPS, then you are RAM, > CPU and storage limited, that is, unless you really pay for a beefed up > server, and, of course, that will cost you dearly. > > A cheap self hosted server on a good connection should suffice for email > better than any other option. I've ran a mail server on a DSL > connection for many years now, it has been improved by an HFC NBN > connection for me, but it worked okay on DSL even if it wasn't ideal. > > There is one other option, but I really loath that choice. That is to > use Google Apps or some other hosted service, just for email -- the only > advantage I see is the level of storage available. But it comes at a > cost of not being able to fully manage the server and the logs and > almost everything else that you have with a hosted service; that is, you > lose an awful lot of control. And then, if you increase user mailboxes, > your costs go up every time. > > I'm talking about using one or more domain names for email services and > not using LookOut (outlook.com), Gmail or any other hosted email. > > What am I missing? Why do people choose hosted services with all the > costs and the negatives? It makes no sense to me, but one client is > agitating to remove their very, very low cost server that I mange on > their behalf. > > Your thoughts? > > Thanks and Kind Regards > AndrewM > > > > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main > >
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