Best VPS for budget hosting
June 13, 2025

Best VPS for budget hosting

Pintu Barman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Lightsail

We use Amazon Lightsail to host our organization's application, it is very cheap and the most important thing is at this low price we get a Virtual private server it's amazing. It solves various issues as it is a part of AWS Eco-system so we can automate so many thinks like route53, s3 various other AWS services safely.

Pros

  • Its provide pre configured Apps and operating system
  • Very easy to use interface and the cost is also very low
  • Integration with other AWS services like route53, S3 etc

Cons

  • We can scale the system in the bigger plan only, no downgrade option available.
  • Sometimes I had to pay extra changes for the data transfer, I think they should increase the free data transfer limit.
  • The cost of Amazon Lightsail service is very low so it saves money.
  • The user interface is very clean and easy to use, so not required too much to understand all the features.
  • No negative impact, everything is fine.
My overall experience with Amazon Lightsail is very good, and the online community of Lightsail users is very large and its helps to resolve any kind of issue i faced on my server. I also like the integration of other AWS services with Amazon Lightsail like we can export our Lightsail instance into ec2 server using snapshots.
The only reason to shift from Liquid Web to Amazon Lightsail is the cost. Amazon Lightsail's cost is very low as compared to Liquid Web.

Do you think Amazon Lightsail delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Amazon Lightsail's feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon Lightsail live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Amazon Lightsail go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon Lightsail again?

Yes

It is best suited for the small applications which do not need much CPU powers to executes tasks and when integration with other AWS services but it is less suited for the applications which need very frequent auto scaling for the performance purpose, as AWS Lightsail did not support system downgrading so not recommend to use in this case.

Amazon Lightsail Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
8.7
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
10
Dynamic scaling
5
Elastic load balancing
Not Rated
Pre-configured templates
8
Monitoring tools
8
Pre-defined machine images
Not Rated
Operating system support
10
Security controls
10
Automation
10

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