Interesting. Does the elastic ip add on allow for eg an ip "shared" between a couple of LB's using keepalived? It mentions assigning it to a server in the faq, but doesn't specify what that actually does.

Too bad it stands no chance. It's either amazon, Google or with a lot of much azure the customer would pick.

Looks like it's 5x the cost of Hetzner for similar hardware. So what is the advantage?

packet.net looks interesting. I wish there was a free tier to explore it.

Heh - yep. They have the type 0 which is $0.05/hr. It was a gateway drug for me <_<. Type 0 is also where I contain my scrapy farm. I find it works pretty effectively.

I'll shoot them a note linking to your comment

Also: Thank you for whomever linked to my blog post!

So $0.05/hr is pretty cheap, but agreed free trial is better. We made a little page with $25 on it if you'd like to try it out! https://www.packet.net/promo/hacker-news/

Awesome! Just signed up. Looking forward to kicking the tires.