I run https://historio.us , a bookmarks search engine, it has a few tens of thousands of users and I pay $40/mo in hosting costs.
Off topic: your intro video doesnt work over https, just thought i would let you know.
Oh, oops! Fixed, thanks!
Ask HN: How much you pay for servers?
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#12I run my personal vps' and a site for a family member[1] on two "droplets" on digital ocean for $5 a pop and couldn't be happier with their service. Also their collection of articles is fantastic for finding out how to get different things set up or whatnot[2]. Love 'em! [1] http://amagiccarwashforsale.com/ (if it's hugged to death let me know
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#13Got a bunch of servers with Linode: personal GitLab, self-hosted Zimbra, Pgsql database, personal/family/fun x2 (python, some PHP, some go behind nginx), couldn't be happier, have been paying $120-$160/m for almost 3 years now. Now also behind free cloud flare account getting free SSL and http2.
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#151x$70 at OVH, 3x10GBP at Feral, 2x$5 + $20 at Vultr. OVH is mostly used for transcoding, Feral for storage and Vultr for my own blog and misc stuff as well as an active job I'm working on.
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#16~$27/month
* ~1k request/second
* 8 + 8 + 2 = 18GB RAM
Tips: Use cheap hosting and build HA into it, server die all the time.
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#17$10. I used to have a coloed server, where I would run multiple virtuals with KVM, but found myself hardly using the instances. I migrated my core services to Vultr, and haven't had any issues.
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#18Running co-located servers for email & web (marketing services). We amortise the cost to $3k a month ($1k hardware, $2k colo/transit) over 5 years. Total CAPEX was $65k AUD 5 years ago including the warrenty. That gives us 3 Nodes with (192GB of Ram, 2x Hex core Xeons) and we have 7TB of Primary Storage w/ 12TB of secondary Storage. Due to the age the storage is all hard disk, but if we were to buy today it would be…
Have you considered Softlayer/IBM Bluemix? There are Softlayer datacenters in Australia with great bandwidth to the POPs. By default your servers get 1G bandwidth and you can upgrade to 10G and up. You can bring your own subnets of course. PM me if you are interested in any details. Disclosure: softlayer engineer
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Could you share where? And what specs do you get for it ?
It's just on Linode, I don't like them, and I would switch to DO if I could (switching is expensive in man-hours).
I'm in the process right now of picking a vps provider. Why would you switch? Linode seems to offer more resources for the money.
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#20I use an m3.xlarge AWS Elastic Compute instance to run a LAMP server for hosting websites.
On this instance I have 24 WordPress based websites, all for small businesses, so no major traffic hogs (I've not exceeded 1TB of traffic per month in 3 years) but I've set them all a 2GB storage limit. I've not yet exceeded 1TB of Magnetic storage.
No email being hosted on the server.
I spread the sites out over 5 IP addresses.
I've got it storing snapshots of the whole thing to a storage bucket too.
On average it's costing me just over $330 per month.
I upgraded to the m3.xlarge instance last year as previous, less powerful instances didn't have the juice to put up with some of the shocking WP plugins/themes that get put on it.