On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
Linode has worked well for me in the past.
Also I'm currently running a medium size mail server on hetzner.de. A 500 member list is nothing compared to that server.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing A "small" EC2 instance costs 6 cents per hour or $43.80 per average month. Plus costs for bandwidth and storage. A "micro" instance costs 2 cents per hour or $14.60 per average month. A small image has 1.7G of RAM and 160G of local instance storage (which isn't suitable for things like list archives). A micro instance has 613M of RAM and only EBS storage (which is suitable for list archives etc but costs). https://www.linode.com/ A Linode 1GB instance has 1G of RAM, 24G of regular disk space, and 2TB of data transfer per month. It costs $20 per month and there are no extras. The cheapest Linode instance isn't going to be much more expensive than a micro instance from Amazon once you include the extras. It will be a lot cheaper than a small EC2 instance. http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex Hetzner has a range of servers starting at E49 per month. The E49 server has 16G of RAM and 2*3TB SATA disks. If you get more IP addresses (E8 per month for 6 addresses and cheaper if you want more) then you can run Xen on the server and share access with your friends. This can make it a very cheap option. EC2 is really good for dynamically scalable systems and for situations where you need bulk computing off-peak (as demonstrated in a LUV talk some time ago). It's not particularly good for running a single server. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/