Sorry, im not sure if im not allowed to ask this.
But im wanting to know what peoples opinion is about Amazon EC2 instances. Sure, there is a pretty decent price gap between LEB offers vs Amazon EC2. But recently i have been looking at some of the LEB/LET reputable providers with ddos protection etc, and realised that the cost of those services (say 2gb ram with SSD and ddos protection comes to roughly $20-30/mth). And at the same time, you can get an instance of ec2 (m3.medium) for ~30/mth (if you prepay for a year), which claims to have ddos protection built in.
So essentially, are reputable lowend providers better than amazon for a production server (performance, reliability and support)? or is an amazon server m3.medium actually not even remotely comparable to say Ramnode's 2048MB SKVM (or another providers similar spec VPS) in performance?
Sorry, this may be a dumb question, i havent really used amazon services, and i have not done any testing etc to compare performance, and im hoping some of you have?
Cheers.