# DigitalOcean vs AWS Lightsail

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-vs-aws-lightsail/59637
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [March 21, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-vs-aws-lightsail/59637 "2017-03-21T18:03:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![liberaltech](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/liberaltech/32/121011_2.png) [@liberaltech](https://meta.discourse.org/u/liberaltech)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-vs-aws-lightsail/59637/1 "2017-03-21T18:03:20Z")

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I tried both and it looks like Discourse is deployable to both in the exact same way. Just follow the Docker instructions for both.  
I ended up deploying Discourse on AWS Lightsail (Ubuntu VPS) for $10/month.

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### Author: ![arun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@arun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/arun)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-vs-aws-lightsail/59637/2 "2017-03-21T18:16:38Z")

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Great choice there. I am with DigitalOcean, but I got 150 USD for free from the students Github pack and realized yesterday that it is applicable with Lightsail too. 😃

Have been contemplating moving to Lightsail, but I will discuss with my team and do that.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 10:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-vs-aws-lightsail/59637/3 "2017-03-21T22:37:59Z")

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There are some comparative benchmarks here for Lightsail

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-cheapest-solution-for-hosting/24060/32?u=codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-cheapest-solution-for-hosting/24060/32)

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### Author: ![liberaltech](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/liberaltech/32/121011_2.png) [@liberaltech](https://meta.discourse.org/u/liberaltech)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 11:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-vs-aws-lightsail/59637/4 "2017-03-21T23:04:59Z")

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What I got out of this comparison.  
Lightsail vs DO  
$5/$10/$40 - Same

$20 - Differ by 1 CPU - DO is better  
$80 - Differ by 2 CPU - DO is better

$160 - DNE on Lightsail - DO is better

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### Author: ![juli](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/juli/32/121043_2.png) [@juli](https://meta.discourse.org/u/juli)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2017, 5:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-vs-aws-lightsail/59637/5 "2017-04-20T05:55:33Z")

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I know this topic is a few weeks old but I wanted to add that Lightsail instances are basically T2 instances with a generalized pricing structure. This means that the CPU performance is governed by credits that once depleted will throttle down your VPS heavily.

More on T2 instances here: [Instance Types](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/)

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### Author: ![EducatorWaji](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/educatorwaji/32/66699_2.png) [@EducatorWaji](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EducatorWaji)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2017, 7:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-vs-aws-lightsail/59637/6 "2017-04-20T07:29:55Z")

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What man? You can apply the codes to lightsail too?

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### Author: ![arun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@arun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/arun)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-vs-aws-lightsail/59637/7 "2017-07-30T21:06:19Z")

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Sorry about the late reply. Yes.