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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

keepamovin wrote: post #51
oDot wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to run a site that compares prices[0]. Not only is the ecosystem pull to the cloud strong, but many developers today look at bare metal as downright daunting. Not sure where that fear comes from. Cloud challenges can be as or more complex than bare metal ones. [0]: https://baremetalsavings.com/

The fragmentation and friction! Comparing prices usually requires 10 open browser tabs and a spreadsheet, which is what keeps people locked into their default cloud. I built a tool to solve this called BlueDot (ie, Earth, where all the clouds are)[0]. It’s a TUI that aggregates 58,000+ server configurations across 6 clouds (including Hetzner). It lets you view side-by-side price comparisons and deploy instantly from…

I use serververify which is created by jbiloh from the lowendtalk forum which uses yabs (yet-another-benchmark-script) to give details about lot more things than usually meets the eye.

That being said, I have found getdeploying.com to be a decent starting point as well if you aren't too well versed within the Lowend providers who are quite diverse and that comes at both costs and profits.

Btw legendary https://vpspricetracker.com (which was one of the first websites that I personally had opened to find vps prices when I was starting out or was curious) is also created by jbiloh.

So these few websites + casually scrolling LET is enough for me to nowadays find the winner with infinitely more customizability but I understand the point of TUI but actually the whole hosting industry has always revolved around websites even from the start. So they are less interested in making TUI's for such projects generally speaking atleast that's my opinion

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Post by grzes »

the only thing that keeps me from migrating from DO to Hetzner is the lack of monitoring agent on the latter. its really nice to set up some hdd & cpu alerts from within cloud provider control panel directly.

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Post by maccard »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #102
Aurornis wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great points. If we’re going to talk about dedicated servers and long lock-in contracts, you have to look at the equivalent prices for hosted alternatives. It’s fun to start thinking about building your own server and putting in a rack, but there’s always a lot of tortured math to compare it to completely different cloud hosted solutions. One of the great things about cloud instances is that I can scale them up or do…

> One of the great things about cloud instances is that I can scale them up or down with the load without being locked into some hardware I purchased. For products I’ve worked on that have activity curves that follow day-night cycles or spike on holidays, this has been amazing. In some cases we could auto scale down at night and then auto scale back up during the day. At work we have this day / night cycle. But for s…

I’ve ran MP game servers that follow this pattern. A good rule of thumb is you should cover 75% of your peak load with your cheaper steady state pre allocated machines, and burst for the last 25%. It really is that expensive to do.

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Post by theandrewbailey »

jiggawatts wrote: post #3
nixgeek wrote: post #2

Genoa was a big leap from Milan. Turin is a huge leap again. AMD really is doing spectacularly well at the moment. Kudos to Lisa Su and the team.

> Kudos to Lisa Su and the team. They're a typical hardware maker unable to focus on software, which is why NVIDIA is now a multi-trillion dollar corporation and AMD is "just" a few hundred billion. They've focused too much on CPUs and completely dropped the ball on AI and compute accelerators. It's especially sad considering that the MI300 and related accelerators on paper are competitive with NVIDIA hardware, it's…

> completely dropped the ball on AI and compute accelerators

AMD produces AI chips, and they seem to be doing quite well.[0] If they didn't, AMD wouldn't be worth anywhere near what it is.

[0] https://openai.com/index/openai-amd-strategic-partnership/

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Post by speedgoose »

navigate8310 wrote: post #43
_pdp_ wrote: post #15

You can extract a lot of value from bare-metal servers from Hetzner but you need to put some effort initially to get them going. That being said, it is not really that difficult. And, frankly, it a lot more fun.

Could you explain the "some effort initially" part?

Also no encryption at rest. You have to setup LUKS yourself.

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Post by chrismorgan »

XCSme wrote: post #27
boberoni wrote: post #11

Anyone have experience with Oracle Cloud and ease of moving away? This benchmark seems to recommend Oracle Cloud, but I’ve heard that Oracle has historically used aggressive licenses and legal terms to keep customers locked-in.

I used their free tier. The account creation process was really confusing, and they kept turning off my instance because usage was not high enough. It seemed quited oudated/confusing to use last time I tried it a few years ago.

This has made me leery of Oracle Cloud in the past. https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...:

> Idle Always Free compute instances may be reclaimed by Oracle. Oracle will deem virtual machine and bare metal compute instances as idle if, during a 7-day period, the following are true:

> • CPU utilization for the 95th percentile is less than 20%

> • Network utilization is less than 20%

> • Memory utilization is less than 20% (applies to A1 shapes only)

The stupid but presumably effective solution is to waste resources to keep above those limits.

Another solution is offered by the email multiple sources cite they send when they reclaim (or warn they will reclaim? not clear) an instance:

> You can keep idle compute instances from being stopped by converting your account to Pay As You Go (PAYG). With PAYG, you will not be charged as long as your usage for all OCI resources remains within the Always Free limits.

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Post by speed_spread »

esseph wrote: post #111
olalonde wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was confused by your comment. I assume you meant to say "I would NEVER tell anyone to use Oracle DB" (as opposed to Oracle Cloud)?

I would never let a friend use Oracle anything. Oracle is a predator.

But is a lawnmower a predator to the grass?

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Post by embedding-shape »

nekitamo wrote: post #83
joshmn wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are plenty of other dedicated server providers that do.

Which comparable US dedicated server providers do you prefer?

I tend to mostly use dedicated servers from Hetzner for my own projects and for my client's projects. Whenever they explicitly want US servers, I tend to go with Vultr's dedicated servers which been serving us well for many years.

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Post by e-master »

> The Azure pricing is at least as complex as AWS/GCP, plus the pricing tool seems worse. They also lag behind the other two major providers in CPU releases - Turin and Granite Rapids are still in closed preview at the time of writing this.

Small nitpick, but Turin-based VM's have been available for more than a month now [1], and they are a beast.

[1] - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurecompute/announ...

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