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Post by def8cefe » Wed, Feb 13, 2019, 2:09 AM UTC

phjesusthatguy3 wrote: post #79

tmikaeld wrote: post #13

Most VPS hosters "share" CPU time between users on a host server (Which mean CPU type/speed doesn't mean much). So it would be great if you could filter for that on serverhunter to paint a fair(er) picture, because a few hosters give dedicated cores by default. When we tried benchmarks on the Hetzner Cloud we found that some servers had as low as 10% max CPU on a crowded host server, which makes sense as to why they…

I'm running asterisk on a ramnode 256MB RAM "OpenVZ SSD VPS (SVZ)" system for $28.80 a year, and it serves home phone for myself and my in-laws. I destroyed it last year because I dist-upgraded to an unsupported version of Debian and man, was it unsupported. Other than that, though, my application has no problems with being on a shared system.

Post by bufferout » Wed, Feb 13, 2019, 7:56 AM UTC

ServerHunter wrote: post #17

tmikaeld wrote: post #13

Most VPS hosters "share" CPU time between users on a host server (Which mean CPU type/speed doesn't mean much). So it would be great if you could filter for that on serverhunter to paint a fair(er) picture, because a few hosters give dedicated cores by default. When we tried benchmarks on the Hetzner Cloud we found that some servers had as low as 10% max CPU on a crowded host server, which makes sense as to why they…

That makes sense! Unfortunately, it'll be hard to obtain benchmarks for every plan with every provider, and it'll be even harder to get enough benchmarks with each provider to paint an accurate picture. Even with the same provider, there can be massive differences between VPSs, it just depends whether you end up on an idle host node with no noisy neighbors or one where everyone is busy mining their favorite cryptocur…

Post by phjesusthatguy3 » Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 7:27 PM UTC

def8cefe wrote: post #81

phjesusthatguy3 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm running asterisk on a ramnode 256MB RAM "OpenVZ SSD VPS (SVZ)" system for $28.80 a year, and it serves home phone for myself and my in-laws. I destroyed it last year because I dist-upgraded to an unsupported version of Debian and man, was it unsupported. Other than that, though, my application has no problems with being on a shared system.

I would strongly recommend against using any OpenVZ VMs. You're forced to use the same kernel as the VM host and if you want to enable any kernel modules (e.g. TUN, TAP) your host needs to do it. Go with Xen or KVM and avoid all that.

Post by ServerHunter » Sat, Feb 16, 2019, 5:44 AM UTC

uponcoffee wrote: post #70

A nice to have but relatively unimportant feature suggestion, the option to filter by total capacity independently of drive type. That aside, this will be useful for figuring out hosting for side projects, thank you for sharing!

Post by jareds » Fri, Feb 22, 2019, 3:50 AM UTC

ServerHunter wrote: post #88

jareds wrote: post #19

Are the sliders keyboard accessible? I use Jaws for Windows as my screen reading software and am unable to adjust the price slider in either Firefox or Chrome.

Happy to report the sliders are now keyboard accessible! :) Turns out keyboard support was only introduced 10 days ago: https://github.com/leongersen/noUiSlider/issues/724#issuecom... We have plans to do some more comprehensive accessibility testing in the near future, but in the meantime, please let me know if you come across any other accessibility issues. Thank you!