I’ve moved to Amazon EC2 as mentioned here and mentioned the monthly pay is $17, that was based on EC2 node’s cost is $14 I think, and after dig into EC2’s offers, I found something more useful, see below:
Amazon has this Reserved Instance which is pretty good to Web servers that needs to be running for all the time, I did some calculation and here is the comparison for 1-year term:
| Plan | One time | Hourly | Yearly | Monthly (alloc.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On demand | 0 | 0.020 | 175.20 | 14.60 |
| light | 23 | 0.012 | 128.12 | 10.68 |
| medium | 54 | 0.007 | 115.32 | 9.61 |
| heavy | 62 | 0.005 | 105.80 | 8.82 |
Although 3-years term may save more, I don’t want to sign such a long contract as $8.82 per month is good enough to me now.
I will move to the heavy one after my free tier expires.