On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 21:07:39 +0200 Markus Koch niftybunny@googlemail.com wrote:
Okay, I knew I am not a normal person with over a petabyte a months across all my servers but seriously what service can you run on a vps with 15 gigz a month?
Well for example you could run some IRC or IM related service, or something else where you don't transfer a lot of stuff from/to the VPS in general.
However my chief concern with the AWS would be that they don't turn off your VPS as soon as you exceed the 15GB, they start *charging* you for the bandwidth overage, at pretty exorbitant rates, and then bill directly from your credit card (which they require that you leave with them when signing up for this). Also I believe there are some limits on the amount of disk access, with the same billing policy. Basically the "free" AWS is a minefield, one mistake and you can find yourself paying ridiculous amounts for it.
As for being "on a tight budget", you cannot afford one euro a month[1], two euros a month[2], 15 USD per year[3], really? Not to mention getting 500GB to 2 TB bandwidth on those, not 15GB.
The free AWS is the most widespread mistake in choosing "your first VPS" for just about any purpose (and as mentioned can be a dangerous one); probably because people are generally unaware how cheap the actual proper VPSes can be.
[1] https://www.arubacloud.com/ [2] https://www.ultravps.eu/en/plans/ [3] http://ramnode.com/vps.php