Meteor on Alibaba Cloud - $30 USD per instance for a whole year!?

Meh. I guess it was too good to be true.

i agree waist off time

It may be temporary, but that doesn’t mean it is a waste. If you are already on good servers, then yeah, the switch and switch back is not likely to be worth it. It could still be good as a middle point between hosting for free/cheap on something like Heroku, and the next level up to AWS or Galaxy.

I can’t find the price list of Aliyun like DigitalOccean.
Please help me to compare price list Aliyun vs DigitalOccean?

Alibaba Cloud VS Digital Ocean
See the pricing in below link: https://www.alibabacloud.com/pricing?spm=a3c0i.144476.675768.dnavpricing.4fcf4cc7SryD5c


They also provide ECS instances VS AWS EC2.
The pricing link is [ Elastic Compute Service (ECS): Elastic & Secure Cloud Servers - Alibaba Cloud]

The devil is in the details…not really!

Just look for the keywords: “Starting at”

Each service has its own set of charges just like Amazon, except for storage and transfer. The good news is that the bill will be less cryptic than amazon’s.

I studied their website, the “starting at” may be caused by the Alibaba Cloud provides both Linux and Windows systems instances. see the link https://www.alibabacloud.com/starter-packages/general