AWS vs. Packet.net – Why We Left AWS (opens in new tab)

(blog.tiingo.com)

12 pointsbimil9y ago7 comments

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Interesting. Does the elastic ip add on allow for eg an ip "shared" between a couple of LB's using keepalived? It mentions assigning it to a server in the faq, but doesn't specify what that actually does.

Bombthecat9y ago

Too bad it stands no chance. It's either amazon, Google or with a lot of much azure the customer would pick.

eip9y ago

Looks like it's 5x the cost of Hetzner for similar hardware. So what is the advantage?

moondev9y ago

packet.net looks interesting. I wish there was a free tier to explore it.

rishifromtiingo9y ago

Heh - yep. They have the type 0 which is $0.05/hr. It was a gateway drug for me <_<. Type 0 is also where I contain my scrapy farm. I find it works pretty effectively.

I'll shoot them a note linking to your comment

Also: Thank you for whomever linked to my blog post!

zsmith9289y ago

So $0.05/hr is pretty cheap, but agreed free trial is better. We made a little page with $25 on it if you'd like to try it out! https://www.packet.net/promo/hacker-news/

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