We need a Like button! Russel Coker, 👍 for that answer. On 2 January 2018 at 19:02, Russell Coker via luv-main <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 January 2018 12:19:26 AM AEDT Andrew McGlashan via luv-main > wrote: > > 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. > > For a mail server you want an "elastic IP", that is an IP address that's > permanently reserved for you. It's free while you have an instance using > it > and you pay a reservation fee whenever you aren't using it (which is almost > never for a mail server). > > > 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? > > https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver > > Linode is generally good. But in a later message you say you need 200G+ of > storage. For that Hetzner has a better offer, E39 per month for a server > with > 2*4TB disks. That has 32G of RAM so it will run ZFS or BTRFS nicely, I've > run > ZFS on Hetzner servers before, but I'm using BTRFS now. > > > 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. > > No they are actually quite reasonable about that. But the 1 year of free > service is for a micro instance (1G of RAM and 5G of S3). It really won't > do > the job for you. > > > 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. > > https://www.hetzner.com/sb > > No, Hetzner is quite affordable. If you want something really cheap they > have > "Server Bidding" which is a reverse auction. They have old servers (ones > that > previous customers cancelled but which aren't worth throwing out) and > reduce > the offered price until someone buys. Currently the cheapest is E26 per > month > for a system with 2*300G of storage and 2G of RAM. But that's not a great > deal, another is E31 per month for 2*3TB of storage and 16G of RAM. That > would run a nice virtual server. You could run ZFS/BTRFS in the Dom0 and > then > run a few VMs on it. > > https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/IP-Adressen/en > > Hetzner charges just under E1 per month for extra IP addresses. If you > were > to rent the E31 server and provide VMs to 3 friends then you would be each > paying E9 per month and getting ~700G of storage and ~3G of RAM. That's a > way > better deal than getting your own Linode instance, but relies on finding > people to share with you. > > As an aside the LUV VM is on a Hetzner server. The system has 2*256G SSD, > 2*2TB HDD, and 48G of RAM. I can't remember the price but I think it was > something like E35 on Server Bidding which is a great deal if you want some > fast storage for VM images as well as some big storage for large files. > > -- > My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ > My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ > > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main > -- Sincerely, Rory Geoghegan
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