Hosting windows server recommendations

simple_n_eazi

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Hi
I am currently looking for a suitable hosting cloud server for my company to install application on it
May I know what is a recommended one that is not too expensive and reasonable reliable.
Need a windows based one, 8gb ram and about 200gb space.
Thanks.
 

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Hi
I am currently looking for a suitable hosting cloud server for my company to install application on it
May I know what is a recommended one that is not too expensive and reasonable reliable.
Need a windows based one, 8gb ram and about 200gb space.
Thanks.
With no other recommendations, I will recommend you try out AWS. :)
 

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Sorry not very familiar on such server.
There are many different products in aws.
Should I be looking at amazon ec2 product?
AWS EC2 product is the main compute managed services. That is where you can procure virtual machines resources.
You may also take a look at AWS Lightsail(https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/), which is a more compact solution targeted at smaller deployment where it will provide basic infrastructure like EC2/RDS/S3/CDN/LB packaged within a more predictable monthly pricing.
 

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AWS EC2 product is the main compute managed services. That is where you can procure virtual machines resources.
You may also take a look at AWS Lightsail(https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/), which is a more compact solution targeted at smaller deployment where it will provide basic infrastructure like EC2/RDS/S3/CDN/LB packaged within a more predictable monthly pricing.

Thank you for the recommendation.
I have subscribed for the aws lightsail and so far it is working great.

I noticed they have about 160gd ssd storage.
Is there anyway to utilise that like a shared cloud drive (google/dropbox) for my team to put shared files? Because our share application currently only occupied a small amount of the storage and mostly still unused.
 

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Thank you for the recommendation.
I have subscribed for the aws lightsail and so far it is working great.

I noticed they have about 160gd ssd storage.
Is there anyway to utilise that like a shared cloud drive (google/dropbox) for my team to put shared files? Because our share application currently only occupied a small amount of the storage and mostly still unused.
You can run a nextcloud installation in it, or simply just exposed as Windows Share via CIFS/SMB over Internet. Nextcloud installation will feels more like dropbox. You can buy more EBS if you need, AWS elastic storage is very flexible.
 

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You can run a nextcloud installation in it, or simply just exposed as Windows Share via CIFS/SMB over Internet. Nextcloud installation will feels more like dropbox. You can buy more EBS if you need, AWS elastic storage is very flexible.

nextcloud needs subscription? seems to be the case when i try to google some information on it
just wondering if can utilise the free space for no additional cost.
 

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