#lightsail — Public Fediverse posts

🚨 NEWS FLASH: #AWS #Lightsail is the Hotel California of cloud services. Sure, it seems cheap at first glance, but their $0.09/GB overage fees will have your budget imprisoned forever! 🤑 The "honest comparison" demands you re-mortgage your house for those surprise fees! 😂
https://galaxycloudsolutions.com/blog/aws-lightsail-vs-galaxy-cloud-solutions/ #HotelCalifornia #CloudServices #BudgetSurprise #OverageFees #HackerNews #ngated

AWS Lightsail's $0.09/GB Bandwidth Overage Is a Trap for Small Projects

https://galaxycloudsolutions.com/blog/aws-lightsail-vs-galaxy-cloud-solutions/

#HackerNews #AWS #Lightsail #Bandwidth #SmallProjects #CloudComputing #CostTrap #TechNews

AWS Lightsail's $0.09/GB Bandwidth Overage Is a Trap for Small Projects

https://galaxycloudsolutions.com/blog/aws-lightsail-vs-galaxy-cloud-solutions/

#HackerNews #AWS #Lightsail #Bandwidth #SmallProjects #CloudComputing #CostTrap #TechNews

AWS Lightsail's $0.09/GB Bandwidth Overage Is a Trap for Small Projects

https://galaxycloudsolutions.com/blog/aws-lightsail-vs-galaxy-cloud-solutions/

#HackerNews #AWS #Lightsail #Bandwidth #SmallProjects #CloudComputing #CostTrap #TechNews

AWS Lightsail's $0.09/GB Bandwidth Overage Is a Trap for Small Projects

https://galaxycloudsolutions.com/blog/aws-lightsail-vs-galaxy-cloud-solutions/

#HackerNews #AWS #Lightsail #Bandwidth #SmallProjects #CloudComputing #CostTrap #TechNews

AWS Lightsail's $0.09/GB Bandwidth Overage Is a Trap for Small Projects

https://galaxycloudsolutions.com/blog/aws-lightsail-vs-galaxy-cloud-solutions/

#HackerNews #AWS #Lightsail #Bandwidth #SmallProjects #CloudComputing #CostTrap #TechNews

Over the weekend, I decided to benchmark some of the VPS's I host services on. I spun up new FreeBSD instances of varying sizes and benchmarked them using sysbench.

The chart shows the results in three main categories using relative performance numbers, each normalized to "out of 100" for easy comparison... (1/2)

#vps #freebsd #benchmark #benchmarking #vultr #lightsail

🌟🚀 Traveling at 20% the speed of light?
Scientists just demonstrated a breakthrough photonic crystal light sail, lighter, more efficient, and potentially scalable for laser-propelled interstellar travel. A practical step toward exploring the stars!
Read more: https://thedebrief.org/traveling-at-20-the-speed-of-light-scientists-demonstrate-practical-light-sails-to-explore-the-universe/

@goodnews

#GoodNews #LightSail #InterstellarTravel #SpaceTech #ScienceBreakthrough

🌟🚀 Traveling at 20% the speed of light?
Scientists just demonstrated a breakthrough photonic crystal light sail, lighter, more efficient, and potentially scalable for laser-propelled interstellar travel. A practical step toward exploring the stars!
Read more: https://thedebrief.org/traveling-at-20-the-speed-of-light-scientists-demonstrate-practical-light-sails-to-explore-the-universe/

@goodnews

#GoodNews #LightSail #InterstellarTravel #SpaceTech #ScienceBreakthrough

🌟🚀 Traveling at 20% the speed of light?
Scientists just demonstrated a breakthrough photonic crystal light sail, lighter, more efficient, and potentially scalable for laser-propelled interstellar travel. A practical step toward exploring the stars!
Read more: https://thedebrief.org/traveling-at-20-the-speed-of-light-scientists-demonstrate-practical-light-sails-to-explore-the-universe/

@goodnews

#GoodNews #LightSail #InterstellarTravel #SpaceTech #ScienceBreakthrough

🌟🚀 Traveling at 20% the speed of light?
Scientists just demonstrated a breakthrough photonic crystal light sail, lighter, more efficient, and potentially scalable for laser-propelled interstellar travel. A practical step toward exploring the stars!
Read more: https://thedebrief.org/traveling-at-20-the-speed-of-light-scientists-demonstrate-practical-light-sails-to-explore-the-universe/

@goodnews

#GoodNews #LightSail #InterstellarTravel #SpaceTech #ScienceBreakthrough

🌟🚀 Traveling at 20% the speed of light?
Scientists just demonstrated a breakthrough photonic crystal light sail, lighter, more efficient, and potentially scalable for laser-propelled interstellar travel. A practical step toward exploring the stars!
Read more: https://thedebrief.org/traveling-at-20-the-speed-of-light-scientists-demonstrate-practical-light-sails-to-explore-the-universe/

@goodnews

#GoodNews #LightSail #InterstellarTravel #SpaceTech #ScienceBreakthrough

The World’s Most Ambitious Laser Could Launch Humanity Into Deep Space

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: To reach Earth’s…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #300+30 #AIoptimization #AlphaCentauri #america #BreakthroughStarshot #Caltech #HamamatsuPhotonics #HarryAtwater #interstellartravel #laserpropulsion #lightsail #mars #NatureCommunications #photonengine #RichardNorte #science #solarsystem #spaceexploration #technology #TUDelft #unitedstatesofamerica
https://www.europesays.com/2562197/

Lightsails for Interstellar Travel - Photonics for Propulsion, Thermal Management and Stability: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.5c00450 -> "Substantial scientific and technological advancements have enabled lightsails to be the frontrunner for feasible interstellar spacecraft, making the #lightsail endeavor one of the most promising and exciting scientific pursuits in the twenty-first century. Looking forward, further progress must be made across numerous fields of science in order to bring lightsails to the next stage of viability. [...] We see the lightsail project shifting the paradigm of space exploration in the twenty-first century, inspiring generations of scientists at the boundaries of scientific and technical capabilities."

Did AWS Lightsail used to offer FreeBSD on its menu of OSes? I looked in on the service recently and didn't see that among the choices.

#AWS #Lightsail #VPS #FreeBSD

Photonic Lightsails are our Best Shot at Reaching Another Star

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.universetoday.com/171137/photonic-lightsails-are-our-best-shot-at-reaching-another-star/

While #lightsail did more of the work, and made it fairly easy, #digitalocean left me feeling are more in control. Glad I made the switch. #blogging

Anyone running #drupal on #aws #lightsail here? I want to install a module, but the composer commands I run don't seem to work. Is there something different about how these systems are installed vs others?

Alternative Cloud9としてのLightsail for Research + CloudShell
https://qiita.com/watany/items/e87c03ed520199cd0489?utm_campaign=popular_items&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=popular_items

#qiita #AWS #cloud9 #WebIDE #CloudShell #Lightsail

What Happened to the $100 Million Dream to Send Sub-Gram-Sized Cameras to Alpha Centauri https://petapixel.com/2024/07/22/what-happened-to-the-100-million-dream-to-send-sub-gram-sized-cameras-to-alpha-centauri/ #breakthroughstarshot #Technology #technology #lightsail #solarsail #science #Space #space #News

I run this blog on a small Amazon Lightsail instance (1 GB RAM, 2 vCPU). Cheap!

Most of the time, it’s fine, but it has a bad habit of dying sometimes on a large image upload. The Jetpack app reports the upload as failing (offering to try again) but my site is completely unresponsive. I can resolve this in one of two ways: either I can still SSH into the box, and restarting PHP with sudo systemctl restart php-fpm recovers and I can try the upload again; or the instance isn’t responsive to SSH and I have to reboot it via the Lightsail console. The CPU utilization is elevated during this period, eating into the burstable zone.

I have seen generally better performance since I updated /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf to override pm = static and pm.max_children = 2, but something was obviously still wrong. I installed atop since I often couldn’t get on the host to see what was happening right when it was stuck.

Last week, while working on a new post, my instance got wedged in the same way while trying to upload a short video. From the JetPack activity log I could see it became unresponsive at 11:42 PM Seattle time; the instance and atop use UTC so I’d need to look at the minutes leading up to to 0642 in the weekly atop log. That looks like this:

Well there’s my problem! php-fpm spikes in CPU, and then kswapd0 pegs the CPU while the instance’s local disk goes wild with reads trying to keep up. One odd thing is while the memory is low, it doesn’t seem to have changed much for the two php-fpm children. I guess I either need to tune the swappiness on my host or try to put a better clamp on PHP processing images? Need to investigate further.

I’m sure the real solution is to not host my own LAMP stack, but where’s the fun in that?

https://blog.ultranurd.net/2024/07/21/investigating-failed-wordpress-uploads/

#amazonLinux2023 #apache #aws #debugging #httpd #lightsail #linux #phpFpm #wordpress

TIL: #AWS #Lightsail charges occur also for stopped instances.
#WTF

Updated AWS::Lightsail::Container PrivateRegistryAccess

Use the PrivateRegistryAccess property to describe the configuration for a Lightsail container service to access private container image repositories, such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) private repositories.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-lightsail-container-privateregistryaccess.html #lightsail #cloudformation

Ok, so. Just tried things out with Lightsail, and I prefer EC2 instead!

Those bursts are not worth it compared to full cpu power, even with static cost. will move my private MC Server out to EC2 now.

Peertube, for now, is on a good condition, so will keep it there. Maybe later i'll migrate to EC2 or similar too!

But yes, a lot of experiment gives me a good thing to know for what to do - and not to do - for this.

#FioProject #FioVerse #MineCraft #AWS #LightSail

Updated AWS::Lightsail::Disk Location

Use the location property to specify the location of the disk, such as the AWS Region and Availability Zone.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-lightsail-disk-location.html #lightsail #cloudformation

Have just deployed a short link tool for our IT department. Made with #django, running on #aws #lightsail

Simple statistics, simple user management, every short link also have a QR code generated for printing out stickers.

Fun little #python project

@deepak
Weird. But that's not a reason to generalize and condemn all European hosts. Have you tried #netcup? They have also good prices

#vps #lightsail

Amazon Lightsail has a 3 month free trial and their lowest end VPC is what I need for this hobby project. Up and running in < 5 minutes.

So much so for local European tech companies competing with big American tech.

#amazon #lightsail

Well crap. With some sadness, I have to strongly dis-recommend #AWS #lightsail as a solution for basically anything. It turns out to be trivially easy to break a lightsail instance in a way that cannot be recovered except by exporting the whole thing to EC2 where there's a serial console, and there is no path _back_ to lightsail once you've done that. 🤬

The second presentation at #12Clouds is a demo of #AWS #Lightsail. Let's see if Sophia Parafina can get a containerized env up and running in 5 minutes!

EDIT: Yep!

LightSail 2

LightSail 2 spacecraft ends its solar-sailing mission in a blaze of glory

www.space.com/lightsail-2-sola…

#space #lightsail

The Planetary Society’s #LightSail 2 spacecraft has reentered Earth’s atmosphere, successfully completing its mission to demonstrate flight by light for small spacecraft. LightSail 2 reentered sometime on Nov. 17, according to orbital predictions. The LightSail 2 team has received no communications from the spacecraft since, leading to the conclusion that LightSail 2 is no more, having burned up in the Earth's atmosphere: https://www.planetary.org/articles/lightsail-2-completes-mission

After 3.5 years and 18,000 orbits of the Earth The #Planetary Society’s #LightSail 2 solar sail spacecraft will burn up as it #reenters the Earth’s atmosphere in the next few days: https://www.planetary.org/articles/lightsail-2-is-about-to-burn-up and https://mastodon.social/@planet4589/109344852286008494 and https://twitter.com/jremis/status/1592260570169892866

NASA will test a new spacecraft solar sail using a NanoAvionics satellite - NASA is going to test a new solar sail system to determine if it’s a viable alternative to propellan... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/AEDRrutIcPE/ #solarelectricpropulsion #emerging-technologies #planetarysociety #spaceflight #outerspace #spacecraft #aerospace #lightsail #photonics #solarsail #cubesats #illinois #science #energy #space #tc

Rocket Lab to acquire satellite hardware maker Sinclair Interplanetary - Rocket Lab is acquiring Sinclair Interplanetary, a manufacturer of spacecraft hardware based in Tor... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/xWJGMo0b6nw/ #communicationssatellites #planetarysociety #spaceflight #outerspace #spacecraft #aerospace #lightsail #rocketlab #satellite #sinclair #cubesat #toronto #energy #rocket #space #m&a #tc