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Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by ivoecpereira »

scarejunba wrote: post #38
ivoecpereira wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would suggest reading about Ansible and working on an initial collection of Ansible playbooks that might help on that. Check out https://www.thecloud.coach/ansible-crash-course . Of course nothing beats a dedicated devops but some playbooks regarding main security compliances might do a great job. Anyone correct me if I am wrong but I am seeing it as a good base practice for these cases.

Honestly, I think this is going in the wrong direction for OP's use-case. He definitely should go in the serverless direction. If he learns any sort of dev-ops infra management he's just wasting his time.

Possibly. I use Serverless as well but I prefer to keep my options open when playing with a new project, than trying to force everything into the same tool. If he is lean to learn something, Ansible might be good for setting some servers up, but there are some nice other suggestions in the thread if he doesn't want to.

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by jacob019 »

Just switched jacobsparts.com over from ec2 to vultr. Cheaper by the hour than a 3yr reserved instance on aws, none of the nickel and dime billing and the cpu is sooooo much better, cutting ~250ms off the response time. Had an unplanned reboot today. Got an email from support and then it went down for about 20 seconds. Overall there is tremendous value in the smaller hosts, and I loved the article; though doubt some of the hosts reviewed will be around for long.

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by lapnitnelav »

fastball wrote: post #11
asdkhadsj wrote: post #3

I can't wait for PaaS prices to drop. I know they'll always be relatively expensive, but I'm primarily a dev (not ops) and I don't have the time nor desire to manage my own servers securely. Heroku lately has seemed a tempting offer, assuming I can run my apps on it (Rust based) , but at $7/m for little side projects it felt.. expensive for a no user side project. They can add up. A $5/m DO box can host quite a few a…

Have you tried running Dokku[0] on a VPS? [0] https://github.com/dokku/dokku

Used to use Dokku but preferred Caprover because it's even less work and there's a web ui. Both are good though

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by jonny383 »

amanzi wrote: post #44

For those of us in NZ, there are only three providers on the list of "good" or "really good" that have a presence in Sydney: Vultr ( https://www.vultr.com/ ), Linode ( https://www.linode.com ), and VPS Server ( https://www.vpsserver.com/ ).

+1 for Vultr. Not in NZ but we've been using them for various app / database servers for coming on four years now and we have literally only ever had one minor issue. Their support is through ticketing only (AFAIK), but their support team is very fast at responding.

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by bullen »

I'm surprised that smaller companies have not moved away from static pricing yet.

We need to introduce a common way of comparing these say: GHz CPU-core day, MB RAM day, MB SSD WRITE, GB SSD READ / NET?

Like this works now you're always comparing apples and oranges and maybe that is the way Amazon and Google (both on KVM now!) wants it?

Few small operators in Dallas, Kansas and Nuremberg are well placed for latency sensitive activity:

- vpsdime (7$)

- 1&1 IONOS (2$)

- Hetzner (3$) & Contabo (6$)

I'm going to try IONOS because they also have a center in Germany!

None in Asia though? You need it to be in Taiwan to service the region well!

Only found yardvps.com (6$) in Taipei and they limit bandwidth to 100GB (2000GB for same price in Dallas).

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by amanzi »

jonny383 wrote: post #45
amanzi wrote: post #44

For those of us in NZ, there are only three providers on the list of "good" or "really good" that have a presence in Sydney: Vultr ( https://www.vultr.com/ ), Linode ( https://www.linode.com ), and VPS Server ( https://www.vpsserver.com/ ).

+1 for Vultr. Not in NZ but we've been using them for various app / database servers for coming on four years now and we have literally only ever had one minor issue. Their support is through ticketing only (AFAIK), but their support team is very fast at responding.

I've used Vultr for a few years now and am overall very happy. I just wish they'd bring their block storage offering to Sydney too.

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by ivoecpereira »

AtroxDev wrote: post #32
arcticfox wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been trying every Docker platform for years (Joyrnt Triton, Tutum, k8s on various platforms)... Cloud Run is by far my favorite

I fully agree with this. I'm using Cloud Run since the day it got into beta and never been happier. It beats all the other platforms (for docker) IMO.

Out of curiosity, what are you using for your databases?

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by jonny383 »

amanzi wrote: post #47
jonny383 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 for Vultr. Not in NZ but we've been using them for various app / database servers for coming on four years now and we have literally only ever had one minor issue. Their support is through ticketing only (AFAIK), but their support team is very fast at responding.

I've used Vultr for a few years now and am overall very happy. I just wish they'd bring their block storage offering to Sydney too.

Can't +1 this enough!

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by mekster »

amanzi wrote: post #44

For those of us in NZ, there are only three providers on the list of "good" or "really good" that have a presence in Sydney: Vultr ( https://www.vultr.com/ ), Linode ( https://www.linode.com ), and VPS Server ( https://www.vpsserver.com/ ).

Have used DO, Linode and Vultr (and some others) for 5+ years but Vultr is the only one that keeps having network problems every now and then.

I run "monit" on all instances that checks for connectivity every minute but maybe every few months or so, I get alerts of network reachability for a slight moment from Vultr instance located in Silicon valley region. It's cool that they accept Bitcoin for payment though.

The page's test of course doesn't test reliability over the years and it seems it's not done 10 times on different instances, and the performance could've randomly fluctuated on the test, so I'd take the results with a grain of salt.

DO has been pretty stable for me. It just keeps running with no interferance.

Linode sometimes (like once a year) makes your instance unavailable for a tiny moment for maintenance but they provide you with clear explanation beforehand and I think it's good that they actively patch security problems that way.

Also good that they pool bandwidth from multiple instances, so even if your small instance takes lots of bandwidth, if you got some other instances, it can consume the limit from those too as a single pool.

Another for Linode is that they release OS images so fast as in they had CentOS 8 image the day I read the news it was released. I checked the others but only Linode had it then.

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