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Today I published an article where I've benchmarked and reviewed most "simple" cloud hosting providers (Vultr, DO, Linode, Scaleway, OVH): https://www.webstack.de/blog/e/cloud-hosting-provider-compar... Edit: I've submitted it as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798023
What was your experience since you are in Germany too?
Today I published an article where I've benchmarked and reviewed most "simple" cloud hosting providers (Vultr, DO, Linode, Scaleway, OVH): https://www.webstack.de/blog/e/cloud-hosting-provider-compar... Edit: I've submitted it as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798023
Do you know why AMS is faster than FRA (ping- and speed-wise), although FRA is quite a lot closer to me physically? What was your experience since you are in Germany too?
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Would you mind sharing the technicalities of splitting requests for your blog across 3 providers? Is the 'load balancing' part done at the DNS level?
Yes—full details at http://blog.zorinaq.com/release-of-hablog-and-new-design/ Don't forget to lower your TTL to make it work decently.
I don't have any experience with Vultr, nor do I know anyone who has. Honestly, I haven't heard of them before. Anyone have experience with them? I'd love to hear about it.
I ran https://precursorapp.com on Vultr in the early days. I had a setup with a few dedicated servers for the DB and load balancer, and then I would spin up and shut down application servers whenever I deployed new backend code. Infrastructure looked like: https://precursor.precursorapp.com/document/Backend-Infrastr... I used to recommend it to everybody, but don't any longer. I had two negative experiences that made…
We're still on AWS too. Currently spending about $50 / site which adds up quite quickly when you have 20+ sites. Our current breakup is something like (2 x t2.micro - one for website, one for cron created using Elastic Beanstalk, 1 x db.t2.micro for RDS + Elastic load balancer cost). I'm sure we can bring it down to $10 / site if we were to move to Vultr or Scaleway but it's a very small site to pay for the reliability AWS has provided to us all these years (apart the recent S3 outage). So guess we'll too just stick to AWS for now until.
I don't have any experience with Vultr, nor do I know anyone who has. Honestly, I haven't heard of them before. Anyone have experience with them? I'd love to hear about it.
I've just had one small $5 VPS with them for about a year now. No downtime, no complaints. Since my needs are so basic I think I could probably get away with one of these $2.50 offerings, however the problem - and it's the only problem I've run in to with Vultr so far - is that downgrading VPS plans isn't possible. You can only go up.
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They do accept paypal and bitcoin, if you don't want to give them your credit card information
Last time I tried that they needed a card on file to pay with bitcoin. Sigh.
"Account must be funded by credit card or PayPal before making a Bitcoin deposit."
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Last time I tried that they needed a card on file to pay with bitcoin. Sigh.
According to their site you need to either link a credit card or add 5$ credit via paypal in order to use bitcoin "Account must be funded by credit card or PayPal before making a Bitcoin deposit."
It's nice to see all this competition ($5 Linode, now $2.5 Vultr) but don't they risk overallocaton? Let's say they have physical machines with 96 GB mem that hold 200 1 GB VMs each, in the hope that no one uses more than half their ram. Same for CPU or disk I/O or whatever resource. Now that the entry level prices are dropping but the offered resources remains the same, people will spin up more VMs. Doesn't it becom…