Best public cloud for small websites?

Question

With AWS now charging for IPv4 addresses, my reserved instance for a small personal website is no longer anywhere near as cheap as it used to be.I was going to go back to Linode (which I had used previously), but it seems they've been acquired.What do people recommend these days? I'm in the US and would (probably) prefer a US-based service, but feel free to answer for different localities (so this can perhaps be useful to others).In my case, the site in question is a random name generator. Compute/bandwidth requirements should be near zero, so I'm mostly optimizing for cost, reliability and non-shadiness: https://random-name.org/

IAmGraydon · Accepted Answer

I'm still using Linode (have been for around 10 years). Everyone acts like being acquired is some kind of cancer or something, but I don't see a reason to leave. Their pricing is the same as their only real competitor (DigitalOcean) and they just made a nearly $50M investment into upgrading their infrastructure. If they start slipping in terms of offerings, price or customer service, I may move to DO. Until then, I'm perfectly happy with them.

remram · Answer

Amazon/Google/Oracle free tiers should be good for a small project. It does include an IPv4.https://aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs/https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features#compu...

cpach · Answer

These are the ones I would look into: Fly, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Tornado VPS, Vultr.

jjice · Answer

Another +1 for Digital Ocean. Been using them for years for basic VPS services. $6 flat gets you a simple VM and $4 gets you one with half (I think) the specs, but it could be fine for really simple stuff.Nice and simple UI.

aborsy · Answer

If it&rsquo;s a static website, S3 has &ldquo;use for static website &ldquo; option. You can put cloud front in front of it and the cost normally would be pennies.But there is a small risk of DDoS or similar passing through their basic protections, and suddenly a huge bill!

architectfwd · Answer

What is your web stack? Is it possible to put it on S3 with cloudfront in front?

pestatije · Answer

non-shadiness: would u please explain?they dont offer full cloud services, but if you can accommodate, Railway (https://railway.app/) has served me well

askz · Answer

Doprax.com is built on top of hetzner/digitalocean/ovh/vultr and has nice auto-deploy functions from github ! And accepts lots of payments options

catherinecodes · Answer

Check out Hetzner (Germany) and Entrywan (US). They have good prices and a no-nonsense approach.

nicbou · Answer

DigitalOcean has been rock solid for a decade for me.

Best public cloud for small websites?

Amazon/Google/Oracle free tiers should be good for a small project. It does include an IPv4.
https://aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs/
https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features#compu...

These are the ones I would look into: Fly, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Tornado VPS, Vultr.

Another +1 for Digital Ocean. Been using them for years for basic VPS services. $6 flat gets you a simple VM and $4 gets you one with half (I think) the specs, but it could be fine for really simple stuff.
Nice and simple UI.

If it’s a static website, S3 has “use for static website “ option. You can put cloud front in front of it and the cost normally would be pennies.
But there is a small risk of DDoS or similar passing through their basic protections, and suddenly a huge bill!

What is your web stack? Is it possible to put it on S3 with cloudfront in front?

non-shadiness: would u please explain?
they dont offer full cloud services, but if you can accommodate, Railway (https://railway.app/) has served me well

Doprax.com is built on top of hetzner/digitalocean/ovh/vultr and has nice auto-deploy functions from github ! And accepts lots of payments options

Check out Hetzner (Germany) and Entrywan (US). They have good prices and a no-nonsense approach.

DigitalOcean has been rock solid for a decade for me.