{"id":27034,"date":"2016-12-01T14:42:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T12:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=27034"},"modified":"2019-02-25T12:07:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T10:07:19","slug":"amazon-lightsail-virtual-private-servers-made-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/01\/amazon-lightsail-virtual-private-servers-made-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Lightsail – virtual private servers made easy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amazon announced<\/a> a new service – Amazon Lightsail<\/a> – virtual private servers made easy, starting at $5 per month.<\/p>\n

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This is basically a much simplified setup of a few of their services, such as Amazon EC2, Amazon EIP, Amazon AIM, Amazon EBS, Amazon Route 53, and a few others.  For those, who don’t want to figure out all the intricacies of the infrastructure setup, just pick a VPC, click a few buttons and be ready to go, whether you want a plain operating system, or an application (like WordPress) already installed.<\/p>\n

It’s an interesting move into the lower level web and VPS hosting.  I don’t think all the hosting companies will survive this, but for those that will do, the changes are coming, I think.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Amazon announced a new service – Amazon Lightsail – virtual private servers made easy, starting at $5 per month. This is basically a much simplified setup of a few of their services, such as Amazon EC2, Amazon EIP, Amazon AIM, Amazon EBS, Amazon Route 53, and a few others.  For those, who don’t want to figure … Continue reading Amazon Lightsail – virtual private servers made easy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Amazon Lightsail - virtual private servers made easy #Amazon #AWS #WebDev #hosting","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,133,62,1334],"tags":[3270,3461,2366,1330,2289],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-27034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-sysadmin","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-amazon-aws","tag-amazon-lightsail","tag-cloud-computing","tag-web-development","tag-web-hosting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27102,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/11\/amazon-rds-and-amazon-virtual-private-cloud-vpc\/","url_meta":{"origin":27034,"position":0},"title":"Amazon RDS and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday I helped a friend to figure out why he couldn't connect to his Amazon RDS database inside the Amazon VPC\u00a0(Virtual Private Cloud). \u00a0It was the second time someone asked me to help with the Amazon Web Services (AWS), and it was the first time I was actually helpful. \u00a0Yey!\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"gs-vpc-network","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GS-VPC-network-500x199.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":25199,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/25\/upgrading-amazon-ec2-instance-type\/","url_meta":{"origin":27034,"position":1},"title":"Upgrading Amazon EC2 instance type","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"By now everybody knows that one of the major benefits to using cloud services rather than hosting on your own hardware is the ease to scale quickly. \u00a0Many web applications and large companies benefit from this, but what about smaller customers? \u00a0How about a single server? 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