Moving from AWS: DO, Linode?

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Posted by hackerzlab, 04-28-2016, 05:40 AM
Hi, AWS has gotten way too expensive. I had credits until now but the bill shoots up to $1100 a month and thought it's time to move. This is my current infrastructure: m4.xlarge, c3.2xlarge and m3.medium plus the charges for RDS and few other services. I currently use the Singapore data centre and would like to stick to Singapore. I can't seem to decide between DO or Linode. My main concern is the uptime, backup and website doesn't get block considering I'm doing nothing illegal. It's a social network website with over 2-5k users visiting every day. Got over 200,000 users registered and adding 300-1000 every day. Your thoughts about DO or Linode would mean the world to me right now. Regards,
Posted by net, 04-28-2016, 06:07 AM
Linode is cool but the issue is with the ddos attack that they are getting and they do not provide ddos protection. I am sure AWS does.
Posted by hackerzlab, 04-28-2016, 06:14 AM
I never have any issue with AWS. I read about it too and so worried. I don't think Amazon AWS, DO or Linode has any such protection.
Posted by net, 04-28-2016, 06:28 AM
AWS has. They just do not announce it :-) It's Amazon :-)
Posted by BBGN Brian, 04-28-2016, 07:50 AM
We see this a lot actually. Ever considering colocating your own hardware?
Posted by HostingMike, 04-28-2016, 08:03 AM
What features are attracting you towards Linode and Digital Ocean? Depending on your requirements, there could be loads of suitable providers out there - as mentioned already, is "bare metal" not an option? It may be suitable going forward but depends on what you're after, e.g. automated scalability.
Posted by linuxclark, 04-30-2016, 06:38 PM
Both are good hosts, I prefer DO myself.