I use an m3.xlarge AWS Elastic Compute instance to run a LAMP server for hosting websites. On this instance I have 24 WordPress based websites, all for small businesses, so no major traffic hogs (I've not exceeded 1TB of traffic per month in 3 years) but I've set them all a 2GB storage limit. I've not yet exceeded 1TB of Magnetic storage. No email being hosted on the server. I spread the sites out over 5 IP addresses…
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#22I use an m3.xlarge AWS Elastic Compute instance to run a LAMP server for hosting websites. On this instance I have 24 WordPress based websites, all for small businesses, so no major traffic hogs (I've not exceeded 1TB of traffic per month in 3 years) but I've set them all a 2GB storage limit. I've not yet exceeded 1TB of Magnetic storage. No email being hosted on the server. I spread the sites out over 5 IP addresses…
What do you do for email for these sites?
To be honest, Zoho's service is pretty fantastic for free email.
Re: Ask HN: How much you pay for servers?
#23I use an m3.xlarge AWS Elastic Compute instance to run a LAMP server for hosting websites. On this instance I have 24 WordPress based websites, all for small businesses, so no major traffic hogs (I've not exceeded 1TB of traffic per month in 3 years) but I've set them all a 2GB storage limit. I've not yet exceeded 1TB of Magnetic storage. No email being hosted on the server. I spread the sites out over 5 IP addresses…
What do you do for email for these sites?
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What do you do for email for these sites?
Typically push people towards Google Apps if they have budget for it or Zoho mail if they don't. To be honest, Zoho's service is pretty fantastic for free email.
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#25~$27/month * ~1k request/second * https://www.scaleway.com * 8 + 8 + 2 = 18GB RAM Tips: Use cheap hosting and build HA into it, server die all the time.
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#26~$27/month * ~1k request/second * https://www.scaleway.com * 8 + 8 + 2 = 18GB RAM Tips: Use cheap hosting and build HA into it, server die all the time.
Looks neat! What's HA btw.?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's just on Linode, I don't like them, and I would switch to DO if I could (switching is expensive in man-hours).
I'm in the process right now of picking a vps provider. Why would you switch? Linode seems to offer more resources for the money.
Re: Ask HN: How much you pay for servers?
#28~$27/month * ~1k request/second * https://www.scaleway.com * 8 + 8 + 2 = 18GB RAM Tips: Use cheap hosting and build HA into it, server die all the time.
Re: Ask HN: How much you pay for servers?
#29~$27/month * ~1k request/second * https://www.scaleway.com * 8 + 8 + 2 = 18GB RAM Tips: Use cheap hosting and build HA into it, server die all the time.
Re: Ask HN: How much you pay for servers?
#30~$27/month * ~1k request/second * https://www.scaleway.com * 8 + 8 + 2 = 18GB RAM Tips: Use cheap hosting and build HA into it, server die all the time.