How to pick your “best” “cloud” provider

Dick Tang
Dick Tang
Sep 3, 2018 · 3 min read

TL;DR no “the best”, it depends

Run ≥10 servers? (with knowledgeable man to setup)
- Google (GCE) / Amazon (AWS)

Run ≤10 servers, for as little cost as possible?
- Linode / AWS Lightsail

Run powerful servers (eg. >100GB RAM)?
- IBM SoftLayer / packet.io / OVH

Choosing a cloud providers is hard, especially there are tons of cloud computing providers. But there are no “the best” cloud provider. Depending on your need / infrastructure scale, there are different options fit you the best…

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Head of DevOps @HK01 . Former @9GAG SRE Engineer . OSS advocator

Dick Tang

Dick Tang

software engineer | devops | open source software advocater

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