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Re: Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers

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superasn wrote: post #50
ServerHunter wrote: post #12

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Custom crawlers, API implementations and lots of automation. Like most search engines, it's not flawless, but it's getting better every day. :)

Yeah, some info seems to be incorrect. Like it shows vmhaus has Windows instances but after signing up I could only find *nix.

Just got a reply (within 1 minute!): "I'm afraid this isn't something we offer any more - In order to install windows, you will need to provide your own ISO with VirtIO drivers included."

I've updated our website accordingly. :)

Re: Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers

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tomaspollak wrote: post #43
ServerHunter wrote: post #23

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Thank you! Unfortunately, I haven't found many providers offering this, but I'll look into adding it for the ones that do. In the meantime, you could ping their domain name to get a rough idea (if they don't use CloudFlare or block ICMP) and contact their sales team to see if they can hook you up with something more accurate.

Generally the "serious" ones do, and if not then we should try to encourage them to do so. A few examples after a quick Google search: - https://www.linode.com/speedtest - https://www.futurehosting.com/network-test-files/ - https://speed.hetzner.de/ - https://turnkeyinternet.net/speed-test/

Looks good! I'll see if I can squeeze some of this information in. :)

Re: Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers

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Post by pheeney »

ServerHunter wrote: post #53
pheeney wrote: post #48

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Doesn't elastic search require a decent size server just to run with no data? Curious about the costs of running elastic search for a small number of documents compared to the low cost of running django. For example the frontend could be static and hosted on S3 for pennies while elastic search seems to recommend at least 8 GB of ram which would be $40/mo on some lost cost VPS providers. Pretty big price difference fo…

I have Elasticsearch running on our development area with just 256 MB of RAM assigned. In production it's quite a bit more, but fortunately, we used Server Hunter to find some great deals for our own infrastructure as well ;)

So meta haha. How much have you needed in production? According to https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/... they say its counterproductive to use less then 8 GB but maybe you have seen different results?

Re: Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers

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Post by ServerHunter »

pheeney wrote: post #63
ServerHunter wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have Elasticsearch running on our development area with just 256 MB of RAM assigned. In production it's quite a bit more, but fortunately, we used Server Hunter to find some great deals for our own infrastructure as well ;)

So meta haha. How much have you needed in production? According to https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/... they say its counterproductive to use less then 8 GB but maybe you have seen different results?

I'm not sure how much we've needed, but so far we've had no issues with 4 and 8 GB. Upgrading that soon though, just in case. :)

Re: Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers

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Post by stevekemp »

segfaultbuserr wrote: post #21

The idea of creating a index of server providers is good, but all implementations are less-than-ideal, and in the worst case, useless. The core problem here is data quality, the magnitude of noise is usually high: * The server providers do not give out machine-readable data. * It's difficult to distinguish some details from specifications, such as vCPUs or dedicated cores. * Promotions and discounts cannot be recogni…

And traditionally server-hosting is a commodity-business at the low-end.

You'll see providers appear on lowendhosting, and similar sites, as a desperate bid to get more customers. Then they fold.

Re: Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers

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Post by buildbuildbuild »

This is very useful and way overdue, thanks. Being able to filter by BGP session support has already saved me hours of work this month (if any DigitalOcean sharks are reading: please match Vultr soon in BGP capability).

I trust you've shared it on LowEndTalk. Now: keep it up to date, not slammed with ads, moderated for accuracy, and profitable. Best of luck.

My main feature request would be the ability to filter out specific hosts that I have had bad experiences with or do not trust (perhaps an X by their username when browsing).

Re: Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers

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Post by ServerHunter »

buildbuildbuild wrote: post #67

This is very useful and way overdue, thanks. Being able to filter by BGP session support has already saved me hours of work this month (if any DigitalOcean sharks are reading: please match Vultr soon in BGP capability). I trust you've shared it on LowEndTalk. Now: keep it up to date, not slammed with ads, moderated for accuracy, and profitable. Best of luck. My main feature request would be the ability to filter out…

No problem! You can already do this using the Provider name field, just use a negative sign, e.g. "-Foo -Bar". Example: https://www.serverhunter.com/?search=1A6-C01-E8D :)

Re: Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers

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Post by ServerHunter »

pingiun wrote: post #66

Hetzner would be a great provider to add to this, even better if you could integrate with their server auction :D

We already feature Hetzner, including their server auctions: https://www.serverhunter.com/?search=F61-1A4-E7D :)
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