Can you link to this deal for an instance with similar specs as the D2.xlarge for 40 a month? that sounds like a great deal and I don't need to host in the US, but this instance type is what I've been looking for.
If you are patient, you can get it below 40 Euros there. I honestly tend to think of things at Hetzner's auction rates or Online.net's Specials because I can wait 30 days to add a new node because I use them for side projects.
If you are willing to downgrade to a Xeon E3-1245V2, they have 2 nodes for sale that are otherwise identical.
Of course, since you can buy like 4 of these nodes vs. 1 Amazon EC2 one...even on a 3yr reserve...ya. Generally, per-node, EC2 has better per-core performance than what you can pick up in the "bargain market" but the fact you can pick up X:1 nodes guarantees it to be a non-issue.
But honestly the best deal is generally:
https://robot.your-server.de/order/market
If you are patient, you can get it below 40 Euros there. I honestly tend to think of things at Hetzner's auction rates or Online.net's Specials because I can wait 30 days to add a new node because I use them for side projects.
If you are willing to downgrade to a Xeon E3-1245V2, they have 2 nodes for sale that are otherwise identical.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E3-1245+V...
vs.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2670+v...
Of course, since you can buy like 4 of these nodes vs. 1 Amazon EC2 one...even on a 3yr reserve...ya. Generally, per-node, EC2 has better per-core performance than what you can pick up in the "bargain market" but the fact you can pick up X:1 nodes guarantees it to be a non-issue.