Amazon Lightsail vs. OVH Dedicated Servers

We utilized Amazon Lightsail to get a web application proof of concept up and running. It's easy to set up, requires minimal configuration, and lets us to concentrate on the coding. It's designed to help you get started fast and easily, but it's not designed for corporate applications or workloads.

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With the dedicated servers, we have maintained a consistent over 99 percent uptime. Several apparel purchases are made on our website every month and therefore having versatile servers is very important. OVH servers are robust enough and offer secure HIPAA compliance. But as you scale higher, and aim to have secure servers you might need to engage security software like SOAR systems as OVH security is not enough.

Incentivized

• static web hosting & non public managments
• low cost remote access
• media distribution

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• Automatically archives and backs up storage.
• It is optimized for large and critical loads.
• Consistent top uptime.

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• slow
• complex integration to AWS Cloudwatch - complex setup required
• No IPv6, a big downside
• less value compared with Linode or Digital Ocean

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• Security options are pretty basic, we must use SOAR software alongside to secure the servers.

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Amazon Lightsail is a great platform. Before we started using it, we were using AWS EC2 instances as our primary servers after being dissatisfied with other providers. After Amazon Lightsail's introduction, we were able to reduce our operating costs, improve our quality assurance tasks, and provide much more efficient and better apps with our microservices architecture.

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• Saved a lot of time on set up and configuration
• Saved money on trial period
• Customer service was less helpful

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• Consistent 99 percent uptime.
• Quite affordable, with plans costing barely 100 dollars per month.

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