Shared hosting or AWS EC2?

Harry P · Apr 27, 2016

I have a small site, its just require less than 500MB storage, average ~30k unique views a month, less than 5gb data transfer. Which option would be cheaper for a year?

I heard of AWS EC2, I only need PHP/MySQL, can this compare to a shared hosting?

ZenHosting · Apr 27, 2016

Hi Harry,

I see you're in Perth. Nice to see a fellow Aussie on the forum! We're based in Perth too.

Have you considered signing up for a business-grade hosting plan? That would be the cheaper option. Alternatively, you could sign up for a VPS but then you would have to pay for management (assuming you don't know how to manage a VPS yourself) and licenses.

RDO Servers · Apr 27, 2016

AWS can be a good solution, but it can also come at a big price. I have heard many horror stories of users having a post go viral, or shared by someone with a large following.

The traffic to their site spikes. Their resources spike, but AWS scales and handles the load perfectly.
Their happy!
Until they get the monthly bill!!

Shared hosting or AWS EC2?

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