Many of you may have heard about Amazon’s latest product named Lightsail. This service is designed to competed with shared hosting providers. A few years back I moved my websites from shared hosting, to self hosing, and ultimately to a dedicated server with 1&1 hostsing. For $85 a month it wasn’t a bad deal. Although the server seemed very sluggish at times and the network wasn’t very fast it was still better than shared hosting.
Over the course of the last two weeks I moved all my web assets to Amazon Lightsail and I couldn’t be happier. The Amazon network is lightening fast and the $5 per month instance is out performing the dedicated server I had from 1&1 hosting. Lightsail offers many plans starting at $5 a month all the way to $80 a month.
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