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Post by dstaley »

cstpdk wrote: post #69
dstaley wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cloud Run user here. It does not support running a database as a Cloud Run service; you'd need to connect to a Cloud SQL instance. This is one area I really hope PaaS providers improve on in the future. The closest thing at the moment is Aurora Serverless on AWS, especially with their neat HTTP connection system. That being said, cold starts are even worse since they're now the start up time for your application in a…

But, correct me if this has changed please, last i checked Cloud Run did not support private networks. So you SQL instance has to be exposed to the internet, correct?

Yes, Cloud Run requires your Cloud SQL instance to have a public IP address.

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Post by fake-name »

This is one of those areas where if the company selling this sort of product isn't maintaining modules for their service in ansible/puppet/saltstack/etc...., they're really doing theirselves a disservice.

I've had to fix the saltstack vultr integration multiple times when they break it. it's really annoying.

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Post by porker »

indigodaddy wrote: post #17

I've been a Netcup customer for a year and a half or so, and I love them. Locations in Germany only, but for less than $10/mo (5.29EUR), you're not going to do much better than this on price to spec ratio. Performance is fantastic. I have the 8G/300G SAS rootserver for 8.99EUR (rootservers just give you dedicated cores). Note however that (similar to BuyVM), they are also extremely quick to cancel you outright if you…

They're a provider I haven't heard of before. Following your link, what does "Billing period 6 Months" mean? Elsewhere on the page it says: "Hourly based billing. Tariff can be terminated at any time."

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Post by iagovar »

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…

Maybe scalingo.com or fortrabbit.com for php?

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Post by InvaderFizz »

exikyut wrote: post #52

Two related questions not answered in this article: - Where can I find good low-cost KVM with decent monthly bandwidth in Australia? Primarily want a remote fast Linux/VNC desktop (which will chew a lot of bandwidth), and want bandwidth left over to actually do things with. - There's no mention of Oracle's always-free cloud offerings (100GB disk, 1GB RAM, 10TB bandwidth). Interested to hear what people think of this.

I'm quite happy with their free tier. I have two Ubuntu machines hosting various docker images.

Network bandwidth seems capped at around 50mbps, but that is perfectly adequate for my needs.

CPU is quite strong, it's two AMD Zen vCPUs. The compile times for a few of my containers was acceptable.

Three downsides:

-No reverse DNS (at least I couldn't get it to work)

-No IPv6

-It's Oracle, I made sure I only used personal info and would never consider it for work purposes.

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Post by vidar »

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…

render.com is a really strong PaaS, quite recent but showing great promise.

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Post by adar »

interfixus wrote: post #63

Happy to see Lunanode rated Really Good. My exact experience during more than three years as a completely happy customer. They don't stock any Alpine Linux, but fetching the install image and setting up is a breeze, and not once, ever, have I had an issue with any of my instances. And highly appreciated: I can clone an instance, download the qcow2 image, fiddle with it locally, upload, and put it back in production.…

LunaNode has been great, I just wish they had even one US location or something that wasn't on OVH's network.

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Post by cerberusss »

My preferred remote desktop tool is TeamViewer. Almost no VPS actually supports this, because TeamViewer needs a virtual graphics card (that's what I'm calling it, but I actually don't know what to call it).

Linode used to provide one at 1024x768, but I think they no longer do so. Vultr however does support one, at 1280x1024.

Anybody else have this preference for TeamViewer?

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