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Re: Ask HN: How much you pay for servers?

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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…

What do you do for email for these sites?

Re: Ask HN: How much you pay for servers?

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post #21
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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…

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.

Re: Ask HN: How much you pay for servers?

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post #21
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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…

What do you do for email for these sites?

Or if you meant outgoing email from the sites - I've used SendGrid for free and Mandrill as a pay for service.

Re: Ask HN: How much you pay for servers?

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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.

wow, Zoho looks really nice. I have a shared provider I main keep for their email. Their prices use to be $3 a month. Now they have moved them up to $15 a month.

Re: Ask HN: How much you pay for servers?

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~$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.?

HA is High Availability. So that if one of the servers fails, you still have a server that can handle requests. Scaleway have a quick overview of how this can be done using their infrastructure: https://www.scaleway.com/docs/how-to-configure-round-robin-d...

Re: Ask HN: How much you pay for servers?

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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.

Because they force you to upgrade the entire machine even if you just need a few GB of space. DO offers 10 extra GB for $1 per month, which is great.

Re: Ask HN: How much you pay for servers?

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~$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.

1K requests/second is impressive. Can you share the domain name that receives these requests?
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