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Question

Amazon EC2 Alternatives

Apr 1, 2017 6:58AM PDT

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for a Amazon AWS similar service to host my website
http://****.com.br

I'm pretty sure Amazon is top one, but it's a little bit expensive.

What similar service would you guys recommend ?

Thanks Happy

**** Note: Question does not require your web site so that was edited out.

Post was last edited on April 1, 2017 8:11 AM PDT

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Something's not right.
Apr 1, 2017 8:10AM PDT

You have your website hosted so why do you need AWS?

As a web master you should by now know how to google "AWS Alternatives."

This means you may have spammed. I'll fix that.

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Providers like AWS, Azure, etc
Apr 6, 2017 9:22AM PDT

Provide a lot of components to build a modular infrastructure. Depending on the type of website you are building, this may be too complicated for simple projects.

Any host, such as Digital Ocean, that provides you with an inexpensive VPS that you can scale when needed may be a much simpler and cost-effective route.

~Sovereign

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Google compute
May 3, 2017 7:35AM PDT

There Google Compute Engine. It is just like AWS EC2, but little cheaper. However, if you want to save your time by avoiding installing the OS and stack and configuring the server from the start, you can use Cloudways PHP hosting platform. This platform gives you a pre-configured server.